Torgils Lovra (17 November 1909 – 11 January 1998) was a Norwegian editor.
He was born in Erfjord as a son of farmers. He finished his secondary education at Rogaland landsgymnas in 1933.[1]
During the occupation of Norway by Nazi Germany, he joined the Fascist party Nasjonal Samling. In November 1941 he was installed as editor-in-chief of the newspaper Tromsø.[2] In 1944 he briefly edited the magazine I fritiden,[3] an organ for the welfare organization Sol i Arbeid.[4] He also wrote poetry.[5] In 1944 he was enlisted as a German agent by Rolf Arthur Jensen, a Norwegian journalist working for Referat III F of the Sicherheitspolizei. Lovra received the agent name Kristoffer and sent to Sweden. He was to infiltrate Norwegian resistance groups and to report to the German legation in Stockholm. Little came from his efforts, according to historian Tore Pryser.[4]
In 1961 he started the apolitical newspaper Nesodden Budstikke, a local newspaper for Nesodden. It went defunct after four issues.[6] He died in January 1998.[7]
References
edit- ^ Juul Møller, Tryggve, ed. (1958). Studentene fra 1933: biografiske opplysninger, statistikk og artikler samlet til 25 års jubileet 1958 (in Norwegian). p. 235.
- ^ Christensen, Pål; Pedersen, Gunnar (1995). Ishavsfolk, arbeidsfolk og fintfolk: 1900-1945 (in Norwegian). Tromsø: Tromsø Municipality. pp. 466–467. ISBN 8299320631.
- ^ Jensen, Tom B. (1992). Nasjonal Samlings periodiske skrifter 1933-1945: en bibliografi (in Norwegian). Oslo: Grafisk Media. p. 44. ISBN 8276950000.
- ^ a b Pryser, Tore (2001). Hitlers hemmelige agenter: tysk etterretning i Norge 1939–1945 (in Norwegian). Oslo: Universitetsforlaget. p. 126. ISBN 82-15-00075-4.
- ^ Lovra, Torgils (26 August 1941). "Andvake ljomar". Stavanger Aftenblad (in Norwegian). p. 5.
- ^ Høeg, Tom Arbo, ed. (1973). "Nesodden Budstikke". Norske aviser 1763–1969: en bibliografi (in Norwegian). Oslo: University Library of Oslo. p. 338.
- ^ Death announcement, Stavanger Aftenblad 17 January 1998, p. 51
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