Arnvid Vasbotten
Arnvid Vasbotten | |
|---|---|
 Vasbotten in July 1945 | |
| Minister of the Interior (National Government) | |
| In office 8 November 1944 – 8 May 1945 | |
| Reichskommissar | Josef Terboven |
| Minister President | Vidkun Quisling |
| Preceded by | Albert Viljam Hagelin |
| Succeeded by | Office abolished |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Arnvid Birger Liljedal Vasbotten 11 August 1903 Florø, Sogn og Fjordane, Sweden–Norway |
| Died | 17 May 1985 (aged 81) Oslo, Norway |
| Political party | Nasjonal Samling |
| Occupation | Jurist, politician |
| Military service | |
| Allegiance |  Nazi Germany |
| Branch/service | Schutzstaffel |
| Years of service | 1942–1945 |
| Rank | Untersturmführer |
| Unit | Germanske SS Norge |
| Battles/wars | World War II |
Arnvid Birger Liljedal Vasbotten (11 August 1903 – 17 May 1985) was a Norwegian jurist and politician. A member of Nasjonal Samling, he was Minister of the Interior in the collaborationist government of Vidkun Quisling in occupied Norway between 1944 and 1945.
Biography
[edit]Born in Florø, Vasbotten received his cand. jur. degree in 1926.[1] Having joined Nasjonal Samling in December 1940, he was employed as a department head in the Ministry of Justice after the German occupation during World War II, and was appointed a judge in the Supreme Court in 1941. During the German occupation Vasbotten wrote numerous legal considerations and articles that attempted to legitimize the Quisling regime, and was instrumental in the work to create a legal basis for the so-called "State Act" of February 1942, by which Quisling was appointed Minister President.[2] Vasbotten replaced Albert Viljam Hagelin as Minister of the Interior under Quisling in November 1944, after the latter was forced to resign.[3][4]
An ideologically convinced Nazi,[2] Vasbotten joined the Germanic SS Norway as a volunteer in late 1942, where he reached the rank of Untersturmführer.[5] Remaining loyal to Quisling until the German capitulation in May 1945, Vasbotten was sentenced to twenty years of forced labour in the legal purge in Norway after World War II. After serving his sentence he was given a position as consultant for the Ministry of Justice, and among other things worked on the publication of Norges lover, the Norwegian code of law.[2]
Vasbotten died in Oslo on 17 May 1985, at the age of 81.[2][6]
References
[edit]- ^ Lampe, C., ed. (1941). Norges statskalender for året 1941 efter offentlig tiltak. Oslo: H. Aschehoug & Co. (W. Nygaard). p. 385. Retrieved 18 March 2025.
- ^ a b c d Sæveraas, Torgeir Ekerholt; Skodvin, Magne. "Arnvid Vasbotten". In Bolstad, Erik (ed.). Store norske leksikon (in Norwegian). Oslo: Norsk nettleksikon. Retrieved 7 January 2025.
- ^ Sørensen, Øystein (1995). "Vasbotten, Arnvid". In Dahl, Hans Fredrik (ed.). Norsk krigsleksikon 1940-45 (in Norwegian). Oslo: Cappelen. ISBN 82-02-14138-9. Archived from the original on 30 October 2013. Retrieved 4 April 2019.
- ^ Kroglund, Nina Drolsum (2017). Hitlers norske hjelpere (in Norwegian). Oslo: Historie & Kultur. pp. 264–267. ISBN 978-82-8323-009-3.
- ^ Brenden, Geir; Thomassen, Arne Håkon, eds. (December 1998). Germanske SS Norge 1942-45 (PDF). Stiftelsen norsk Okkupasjonshistorie. p. 6. Retrieved 18 March 2025.
- ^ "Person: Arvid Vasbotten". Døde 1951-2017. Digitalarkivet. Retrieved 18 March 2025.
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