Ingjald Nordstad, Date of Birth, Date of Death

    

Ingjald Nordstad

Norwegian politician

Date of Birth: 12-Feb-1897

Date of Death: 01-Jan-0001

Profession: politician

Nationality: Norway

Zodiac Sign: Aquarius


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About Ingjald Nordstad

  • Ingjald Nordstad (12 February 1897 – 1960) was a Norwegian newspaper editor and politician for the Labour Party. He joined his first trade union in 1914, and the Labour Party in 1916.
  • In 1918 he was imprisoned for conscientious objection.He was hired as a sub-editor in the newspaper Nybrott in 1919, and in 1922 he became editor-in-chief after Albin Eines.
  • From 1922-1937 and 1952-1955 he was also a member of Larvik city council.
  • From 1929 Nordstad managed the Larvik branch of the Bank of Norway.
  • He was chairman of the board of Larvik library 1930-1932. During the occupation of Norway by Nazi Germany, Nybrott was stopped on 20 August 1940 for printing material unfavourable to the Nazis.
  • He had already been arrested and imprisoned from 12 August to 4 September.
  • Nybrott resumed publication, but the Nazi policy deemed it unnecessary to have several newspapers in one city.
  • Nybrott was merged with the bourgeois Østlands-Posten to form Larvik Dagblad from 1 July 1943.
  • Nordstad was editor-in-chief together with Øyvind Næss.
  • Both were arrested on 8 December 1943 and replaced with Carl Henry.
  • Nordstad was again imprisoned.
  • He was incarcerated in Bredtveit concentration camp from 11 December 1943 to 9 February 1944, then in Møllergata 19 until 6 May, then in Grini concentration camp until 13 March 1945, then in Mysen until the war's end.
  • From 1945 he again served as editor-in-chief of Nybrott.

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