Ingjald Nordstad was a Norwegian

Norway

Norway , officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic unitary constitutional monarchy whose territory comprises the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula, Jan Mayen, and the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard and Bouvet Island. Norway has a total area of and a population of about 4.9 million...

 newspaper editor and politician for the Labour Party

Norwegian Labour Party

The Labour Party is a social-democratic political party in Norway. It is the senior partner in the current Norwegian government as part of the Red-Green Coalition, and its leader, Jens Stoltenberg, is the current Prime Minister of Norway....

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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

Nybrott (Larvik newspaper)

Nybrott was a Norwegian newspaper, published in Larvik in Vestfold county.Nybrot was started on 9 September 1911, as a Labour Party newspaper. It was first weekly, was then published twice a week, then daily from 1915...

in 1919, and in 1922 he became editor-in-chief after Albin Eines

Albin Eines

Albin Konrad Eines was a Norwegian newspaper editor and politician for the Labour and Communist Labour parties. He later became a Nazi, working for Norwegian and German Nazis during the Second World War.-Early career:...

. 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

Occupation of Norway by Nazi Germany

The occupation of Norway by Nazi Germany started with the German invasion of Norway on April 9, 1940, and ended on May 8, 1945, after the capitulation of German forces in Europe. Throughout this period, Norway was continuously occupied by the Wehrmacht...

, 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

Østlands-Posten

Østlands-Posten is a local newspaper published in Larvik, Norway. It covers Larvik and Lardal. It was established in 1881.It has a circulation of 14284, of whom 13888 are subscribers....

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

Carl Henry (politician)

Carl Henry was a Norwegian politician for the Labour Party.He was born in Kristiania as a son of baker Carl Jacobsen and Helga Elise Pedersen. He attended upper secondary school for four years, studying both sciences and commerce, the latter in Sandefjord. He also attended the Nordic folk high...

. Nordstad was again imprisoned. He was incarcerated in Bredtveit concentration camp from 11 December 1943 to 9 February 1944, then in Møllergata 19

Møllergata 19

Møllergata 19 is an address in Oslo, Norway where the city's main police station and jail was located. The address gained notoriety during the German occupation from 1940 to 1945, when the Nazi security police kept its headquarters here...

 until 6 May, then in Grini concentration camp until 13 March 1945, then in Mysen

Mysen

Mysen is the administrative center of the municipality of Eidsberg in the county of Østfold in Norway.Between 1920 and 1961, it was a separate municipality. Mysen became an independent municipality on 1 July 1920 when it was spun off from Eidsberg. On 1 January 1961 Mysen was merged again with...

 until the war's end. From 1945 he again served as editor-in-chief of Nybrott.