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About Bjarne Aagaard Strøm
- Bjarne Aagaard Strøm (29 May 1920 – 3 January 2008) was a Norwegian newspaper editor and politician for the Liberal Party. He hailed from Kristiansand.
- After World War II reached Norway in 1940 with the German invasion and subsequent occupation, Strøm joined the Norwegian resistance movement at the age of 22.
- Already in August 1942 he was arrested by the Nazi authorities for his connection to Milorg, and was imprisoned at Kristiansand prison and Arkivet.
- From 5 October 1942 to 30 April 1943 he was incarcerated at Grini concentration camp.
- He was sentenced to death by a German court in 1943, but Josef Terboven was pressured and personally changed the sentence to lifelong forced labour.
- Strøm was shipped to a concentration camp in Germany, but survived the stay and returned to Norway after Germany's loss in the war.Later in 1945 he was hired as a journalist in the newspaper Agderposten.
- He was promoted to subeditor already in 1947, and was promoted further to news editor in 1956 and political editor in 1963.
- From 1968 to his retirement he was the editor-in-chief of Haugesunds Avis.
- In September 1986 his successor from May 1987, Kristian Magnus Vikse, was named.
- Strøm also served as a deputy representative to the Parliament of Norway from Aust-Agder during the term 1965–1969.
- He met in 46 days of parliamentary session.
- He chaired Norges Venstrepresselag and Sosialliberalt Presselag, and was a board member of the Norwegian News Agency.
- He was a freemason.Strøm met his future wife in 1945, and married in 1946.
- He died in early 2008.
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