Undersøkelseskommisjonen av 1945 was a commission appointed by the Parliament of Norway in 1945 and chaired by Gustav Heiberg

Gustav Adolf Lammers Heiberg

Gustav Adolf Lammers Heiberg was a Norwegian barrister and politician for the Labour Party.-Personal life:He was born in Kristiania as a son of barrister Anton Vilhelm Heiberg and his wife Antonie Magdalene Fossum. He was a first cousin of Eivind, Jacob, Gunnar and Inge Heiberg and a first cousin...

, given the task to investigate the role of the three branches of power; the Norwegian Parliament, Government and Supreme Court

Supreme Court of Norway

The Supreme Court of Norway was established in 1815 on the basis of the Constitution of Norway's §88, prescribing an independent judiciary. It is located in Oslo and is Norway's highest court...

 as well as the Administrative Council

Administrative Council (Norway)

The Administrative Council was a council established by the Supreme Court to govern Norway. The council was established on 15 April 1940, replacing Quisling's First Cabinet, and sat until 25 September, when it was replaced by the Reichskommissariat Norwegen headed by Josef Terboven. The council...

 in 1940. The six reports with nine annexes published by the commission in 1946 and 1947, are regarded as an important source on the events in 1940.

Commission members

• Gustav Adolf Lammers Heiberg
  Gustav Adolf Lammers Heiberg
  Gustav Adolf Lammers Heiberg was a Norwegian barrister and politician for the Labour Party.-Personal life:He was born in Kristiania as a son of barrister Anton Vilhelm Heiberg and his wife Antonie Magdalene Fossum. He was a first cousin of Eivind, Jacob, Gunnar and Inge Heiberg and a first cousin...
  
   (chairman)
• Arne Bergsgård
  Arne Bergsgård
  Arne Bergsgård was a Norwegian historian, born in Vestre Slidre. He was a board member of Noregs Mållag from 1929 to 1936. He earned his dr.philos. degree in 1933, with a thesis on Ole Gabriel Ueland, and was appointed professor in 1935. During the occupation of Norway by Nazi Germany he joined...
  
  
• Ernst Fredrik Eckhoff
  Ernst Fredrik Eckhoff
  Ernst Fredrik Eckhoff was a Norwegian judge.He was born in 1905 as a son of jurist Nicolay Kristian Schreuder Eckhoff . He was a second cousin of legal academic Torstein Eckhoff, designer Tias Eckhoff and actor Johannes Eckhoff, and a grandnephew of architect Niels Stockfleth Darre Eckhoff. He was...
  
  
• Ole Hallesby
  Ole Hallesby
  Ole Kristian Hallesby was an influential conservative Norwegian Lutheran pietist who taught at the Free Faculty of Theology from 1909 to 1952....
  
  
• Arnold Holmboe
  Arnold Holmboe
  Arnold Holmboe was a Norwegian politician for the Liberal Party. He was mayor of Tromsø, two-term member of the Norwegian Parliament as well as Minister of Justice from 1922 to 1923 and Minister of Finance from 1924 to 1926....
  
  
• Sverre Steen
  Sverre Steen
  Sverre Steen was a Norwegian historian, a professor at the University of Oslo, and known to the public through his radio series Langsomt ble landet vårt eget...
  
  
• Nils Nilsen Thune
  Nils Nilsen Thune
  Nils Nilsen Thune was a Norwegian jurist and civil servant.He was born in Vang, Oppland, and was a son of Nils Throndsen Thune. He graduated with the cand.jur. degree in 1902. He was hired in the Trondhjem police in 1911, and became police inspector in the city in 1916 and an assessor in 1920...
  
  
• Helge Sivertsen
  Helge Sivertsen
  Helge Sivertsen was a Norwegian discus thrower and politician. He was born in Mandal, but represented Inderøy IL in athletics competitions. His party affiliation was to the Labour Party....
  
   (secretary).

Reports

• I. Foreign and defence policy under Nygaardsvold's Cabinet until 7 June 1940 (with eight annexes, 1–8)
• II. Administrative Council
  Administrative Council (Norway)
  The Administrative Council was a council established by the Supreme Court to govern Norway. The council was established on 15 April 1940, replacing Quisling's First Cabinet, and sat until 25 September, when it was replaced by the Reichskommissariat Norwegen headed by Josef Terboven. The council...
  
  
• III. Riksrådsforhandlingene (with annex 9)
• IV. The Supreme Court
  Supreme Court of Norway
  The Supreme Court of Norway was established in 1815 on the basis of the Constitution of Norway's §88, prescribing an independent judiciary. It is located in Oslo and is Norway's highest court...
  
  
• V. County governors and new organization of the municipalities in 1940
• VI. Undertakings of the Cabinet Nygaardsvold
  Cabinet Nygaardsvold
  Nygaardsvold's Cabinet was appointed on 20 March 1935, the second Labour cabinet in Norway. It closed the brought to an end the non-socialist, minority Governments that had been dominating politics since the introduction of the parliamentary system in 1884, and replaced it with stable, Labour...
  
  from 7 June 1940 to 25 June 1945

Annexes

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