Thorleif Dahl (jurist), Date of Birth, Date of Death
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Norwegian lawyer (1907-1997)
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About Thorleif Dahl (jurist)
- Thorleif Dahl (29 October 1907 – 9 February 1997) was a Norwegian jurist who served as a civil servant representing Nasjonal Samling during the Second World War. He was born in Skien, was married and had six children.
- He finished his secondary education in 1926 and took the cand.jur.
- degree.He worked as an attorney in his hometown until 1940, when he was hired as permanent under-secretary of state in the Ministry of the Interior.
- This was during the occupation of Norway by Nazi Germany, and he had joined the Fascist party Nasjonal Samling in 1938.
- Dahl is regarded by historians as a knowledgeable and practical civil servant with "judicial finesse".
- As the German occupants came to mistrust the Minister of Interior, Albert Viljam Hagelin, Dahl rose from 1942–43 to serve almost as the "acting Minister of the Interior".
- After the war, he was convicted for treason and sentenced to five years of forced labour.He settled in Gjerpen.
- He died in 1997, almost 90 years old.
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