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About Knut Lier-Hansen
- Knut Lier-Hansen (8 September 1916 – 28 March 2008) was a Norwegian resistance member during World War II. He was born and grew up in Rjukan.
- Around 1940 he was a sergeant in the Norwegian Army, and tried to repel the German invaders in April 1940, among others in a skirmish at Gransherad.
- He later joined the more irregular resistance movement.
- His most notable mission was the sinking of SF Hydro as a part of the Norwegian heavy water sabotage.
- After placing explosives below deck in the ferry, the saboteurs had to wait until the ferry's departure in the morning to oversee that nothing went against the plan.
- After witnessing the ferry leave harbor in a normal way, Lier-Hansen fled the scene for Einar Skinnarland's house.
- The ferry went down in the middle of Lake Tinn, and in addition to sabotaging the heavy water program, eighteen lives (fourteen civilians) were lost.
- When the war between Germany and Norway was over, on 8 May 1945, Lier-Hansen was dispatched together with Henry Johansen and another person to arrest Reichskommissar für die besetzten Norwegischen Gebiete Josef Terboven.
- The Norwegians reached Skaugum where Terboven had entrenched himself, but they were warded off by guards.
- Soon after, Terboven blew himself up.After the war he participated in the film Kampen om tungtvannet.
- He also received death threats linked with successive anniversaries of the SF Hydro sinking.
- He was sparsely decorated.
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