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About Reidun Røed
- Reidun Røed, née Hjartøy (22 March 1921 – 5 April 2009) was a Norwegian resistance member. She was born in Rjukan, but the family moved to Jar in her youth, and she finished her secondary education at Stabekk Upper Secondary School.
- She studied chemistry at the University of Oslo, but this ended when the university was closed by the Nazi occupiers (1940–1945) of Norway following the 1943 University of Oslo fire.
- She worked as an assistant at the Norwegian Radium Hospital until 1944, when she was hired as a secretary for the leader of Milorg's District 13 based in Norway's capital. She started working for Major Oliver H.
- Langeland, the first leader of D13.
- In July 1944 Langeland received orders from London to leave the country, and travelled to England via Sweden, and Lorentz Brinch took over as the new leader of D13.
- Hjartøy was one of district leader Brinch's closest helpers.
- Brinch, Hjartøy and Andreas Tømmerbakke were the three people usually present at the district's main office, where sub-leaders (intelligence, weapons, sabotage, provisions) came in to file reports during the day.
- As the highest-serving woman in the district she was often called "Milorg D 13's first lady".She was decorated with the Defence Medal 1940–1945.
- After the war's end she was given a scholarship to complete her studies in the United States.
- Here she met Per Røed, a prolific saboteur from Milorg's District 13, whom she married.
- Røed and Hjartøy were old acquaintances from secondary school.
- They coincidentally met again at a Christmas celebration in a cover-up apartment in December 1944.
- They engaged in 1945, and married in the US in 1947.
- They lived at Jar.
- She died in April 2009 and was buried at Haslum.
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