Adolf Egeberg

Adolf Egeberg

Adolf Egeberg Jr. (b. 30 September 1909 in Christiania [Oslo], Norway; d. 22 June 1972) was a Norwegian National Socialist politician, journalist and leader of the National Socialist Workers' Party of Norway.

Life

Shows Egeberg in his own uniform in front on the right (kneeling), with Hitler, Kurt Kühme and others in Munich (Reichsführerschule), circa 1931–32

Egeberg worked as a correspondent for Nationen in Germany circa 1930, and he took courses in the SA in Munich, and SS in Berlin. He was involved in the short-lived Norwegian fascist party National Legion in 1927–28, before he founded the National Socialist Workers' Party of Norway (NNSAP) in 1932, modelled on the German NSDAP. Egeberg left the party to join the founding of Nasjonal Samling (NS) in 1933, he became party secretary and was editor of Vestlandets Avis (1934–36), the NS-paper published in Stavanger.

Post-war

Egeberg testified during the "The Norwegian treason settlement" (Det norske landssvikoppgjøret) after WWII, took part in private interviews with writers and maintained contact with former National Socialist comrades.

Death

Adolf Egeberg Jr. died in 1972 and is buried at Vestre gravlund.

Family

Adolf was born the son of Adolf Antonius Egeberg (1889–1958) and his wife Manih/Marie (b. 12 December 1889 in Kristiania). His father was a theater author and set designer/-painter (Teatermaler). He had two brothers:

• Dagfinn (26 June 1913 – 20 July 1979); ∞ Gunnhild "Dulla" Bjørnsdotter Håtveit (1923–1986), two sons
  • Dagfinn, born in Aker, Telemark, Nordstrand, had joined the Norwegian merchant navy and served as radio operator on board of the Norwegian motor tanker "Norland" (8,134 tons). "Norland" under Master Eugen Christoffersen was torpedoed on 20 May 1942 about 460 miles east of Bermuda by the German U-Boat U 108 under Korvettenkapitän Klaus Scholtz. All 48 crew members survived and were allowed to get into lifeboats. Dagfinn Egeberg was in the third lifeboat under the command of the master that sailed 1000 miles in 18 days before the 15 occupants were rescued on 7 June 1942 only 25 miles from Cape Lookout.
• Rolf (b. 5 December 1916 in Nordstrand), nordic artist