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About Erik Solem
- Erik Toralf Solem (23 August 1877 – 15 July 1949) was a Norwegian judge. He was born in Kristiania.
- He worked as a Supreme Court barrister from 1905, district stipendiary magistrate (sorenskriver) from 1912 to 1927 and acting professor of jurisprudence from 1931 to 1932.
- He served as a Supreme Court Justice from 1938 to 1948, except for the period between December 1940 and May 1945, during the German occupation of Norway.
- During those years, he was a member of the Norwegian resistance movement´s leadership and viewed as the successor of Paal Berg should Berg die.
- Following the end of the occupation he was active in the legal purge, as an ad hoc presiding judge in Eidsivating.
- Among others, he presided over the case where Vidkun Quisling was sentenced to death for high treason.
- Harsh in his sentencing, he was nicknamed "Erik Bloodaxe" by some, but later remitted some of his own sentences.
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