Harry Vestli, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Norwegian trade unionist
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Place of Birth: Sande, Vestfold, Norway
About Harry Vestli
- Harry August Vestli (10 May 1918 – 2 September 1942) was a Norwegian trade unionist who was imprisoned and died during the occupation of Norway by Nazi Germany. Harry Vestli was born in Sande i Vestfold as the son of Petter Rikard Vestli and his Swedish wife Emma Kristine.
- He had gone through middle school, and worked at the factory Lilleborg, where he was the union steward.On 9 September 1941, the so-called milk strike occurred in Oslo.
- The Nazi German occupants of Norway ordered a harsh crackdown on the striking workers, and martial law was declared the next day.
- A local union leader, Rolf Wickstrøm, and chief jurist in the Confederation of Trade Unions, Viggo Hansteen were executed immediately.
- Arrested on 12 September, Harry Vestli was sentenced to death together with Ludvik Buland and Josef Larsson, but the three were later reprieved, and instead given a lifelong jail sentence.
- Vestli was imprisoned at both Grini and Akershus Fortress, before being sent to Germany on 16 October 1941.
- While imprisoned here he contracted tuberculosis.
- He died in September 1942 at a hospital in Hamburg.
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