Gunnar Christian Brøvig, Date of Birth, Date of Death
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Norwegian ship owner
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About Gunnar Christian Brøvig
- Gunnar Christian Brøvig (30 August 1907 – 8 September 1944) was a Norwegian ship-owner and resistance member. He was born in Farsund as a son of Tharald Brøvig, Sr.
- and Cecilie Catharina, née Hoff.
- He had the much younger brother Harald Nikolai Brøvig and the sister Andrea Brøvig, who married Olav Selvaag.
- He had married Ragnhild Mørch in Borge in 1940, and they lived in Farsund.
- The couple had one child; the son Tharald Brøvig, Jr.Brøvig had the cand.jur.
- degree, and after serving some time as a deputy judge he worked in the shipping business.
- From 1938 he was the leader of his father's company Th.
- Brøvig.During the occupation of Norway by Nazi Germany he worked with illegal transport of refugees from the Nazi regime.
- He was a member of the resistance within Sivorg.
- He was arrested on 18 March 1944, and was incarcerated in Arkivet until 13 May, then in Grini concentration camp to 6 September 1944.
- He was then shipped on board the prisoner transport ship SS Westfalen.
- On 7 September 1944 the ship sank off Marstrand, probably hit by a naval mine.
- Seventy-eight people aboard survived, but most of the Norwegian prisoners-of-war were casualties, including Brøvig.
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