Erling Bentzen, Date of Birth, Date of Death

    

Erling Bentzen

Norwegian politician and newspaper editor

Date of Birth: 08-Jan-1897

Date of Death: 01-Jan-1962

Profession: politician, contributing editor

Nationality: Norway

Zodiac Sign: Capricorn


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About Erling Bentzen

  • Erling Herolf Bentzen, sometimes given as Bentsen (8 January 1897 – 12 December 1962) was a Norwegian newspaper editor and politician for the Labour and Communist parties. He was born in Kristiania, but moved to Sarpsborg.
  • He joined Norges Socialdemokratiske Ungdomsforbund, by extension the Labour Party, in 1911, and sat as a county board member.
  • He found work at Oslo Gassverk in 1915, and became a secretary of his local trade union.In 1923 he broke away from the Labour Party, joining the new Communist Party.
  • He was a delegate to the 7th Enlarged Plenum of the Executive Committee of the Communist International in 1926.
  • From 1926 to 1928 he was a member of the party's politburo, and from 1927 to 1928 regional party leader in Oslo and Akershus.
  • In 1928 he undertook studies at the International Lenin School.
  • In 1932 he again became a member of the Communist Party politburo, and from 1932 to 1934 he edited their main newspaper Arbeideren.
  • In 1934 he was fired for not following the directions of the Comintern, the superior organ of the Communist Party of Norway.He was later registered as a docks worker.
  • During the occupation of Norway by Nazi Germany, he was arrested by Gestapo on 13 September 1941 after the milk strike.
  • He was sent to Grini concentration camp until 3 April 1942, when he was sent to Sachsenhausen concentration camp.
  • He remained here until the end of World War II.
  • After the war he edited Nordlands Arbeiderblad from 1949 to 1952, and then worked as a journalist in Friheten.
  • He died in 1962.

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