Rolf Wickstrøm, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Norwegian trade unionist
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Place of Birth: Christiania, Norway
About Rolf Wickstrøm
- Rolf Wickstrøm (9 December 1912 in Oslo, Norway – 10 September 1941) was a Norwegian labour activist and a victim of the German occupation of Norway during World War II. Wickstrøm grew up in a working-class family.
- In 1935 he was hired as a welder on the rapidly expanding Skabo Jernbanevognfabrikk, the Skabo Rail Coach Factory.
- Dating from January 1940, he was labour representative and shop stewart at Skabo.
- He was arrested at Møllergata 19 in Oslo from 2 May to 26 May 1941.Wickstrøm was executed during the state of martial law which followed the so-called milk strike (Melkestreiken), together with the labour lawyer Viggo Hansteen.
- The reason for the strike was that food supplies had become increasingly worse by September 1941.
- These two were the first labour representatives to be executed during the German occupation, and as such gained a great symbolic value for the continued resistance.
- Wickstrøm left behind his wife Signe (1913-1996) and son Tore (born 1938).
- After the war, Hansteen and Rolf Wickstrøm were buried in Vår Frelsers gravlund.Viggo Hansteen and Rolf Wickstrøm were honored by the naming of a section of road around Oslo which bears their names.
- In 1948, a memorial was erected in granite with bronze relief at the site of execution at Årvoll in the Bjerke district of Oslo.
- The memorial was directed by Norwegian sculptor Nic Schiøll (1901–1984).
- It bears the following: Viggo Hansteen, Rolf Wickstrøm.
- The first victims in Norway's struggle for freedom from 1940-45.
- Shot by the Germans 10 September 1941.
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