Gudmund Seland, Date of Birth, Date of Death
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Norwegian newspaper editor and mayor
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About Gudmund Seland
- Gudmund Seland (11 November 1907 – 1996) was a Norwegian resistance member and newspaper editor. He was born in Flekkefjord.
- He worked as a book printer before the Second World War, but together with his brother Johannes Seland he was involved in the resistance movement during the occupation of Norway by Nazi Germany.
- He was arrested on 4 April 1944, and imprisoned in Kristiansand before sitting in Grini concentration camp from 5 August 1944 to 8 May 1945.After the war he became deputy mayor of Nes, serving as mayor from 1952 to 1956.
- He was an editor for the newspaper Agder from 1954.
- Seland also wrote books on local history.
- He backed down and sold the newspaper in 1970.
- He died in 1996.
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