Einar Grill Fasting, Date of Birth, Date of Death

    

Einar Grill Fasting

Norwegian politician

Date of Birth: 25-Oct-1883

Date of Death: 21-Apr-1958

Profession: businessperson

Nationality: Norway

Zodiac Sign: Scorpio


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About Einar Grill Fasting

  • Einar Grill Fasting (25 October 1883 – 21 April 1958) was a Norwegian businessperson and Nazi politician. In 1933 he co-founded the local branch of the Norwegian Fascist party Nasjonal Samling in Hamar.
  • He became the city leader (Führer), whereas townsman Wilhelm Frimann Koren Christie became county leader.
  • Compared to elsewhere in Norway, the party was relatively successful in Hamar, winning two city council seats in its first election outing.
  • Fasting also chaired the local sports club Hamar IL from 1930 to 1934.On 9 April 1940 Norway was invaded by Nazi Germany.
  • During the subsequent occupation, Fasting was installed by the Germans as mayor of Hamar on 1 January 1941.
  • In July 1941 he was installed as chairman of Hamar, Vang og Furnes Kommunale Kraftselskap.After the Second World War, Fasting was removed from his positions, and was arrested in May 1945.
  • In the post-war Norwegian legal purge he was tried for treason, and in Hamar City Court he was sentenced to nine years of prison in October 1946.
  • His case was finally decided in the Supreme Court of Norway in December 1948, where his sentence was reduced to seven years.
  • He died in 1958.

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