Gunvald Strøm-Walseng, Date of Birth, Date of Death
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Member of the Norwegian resistance
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About Gunvald Strøm-Walseng
- Gunvald Strøm-Walseng (12 December 1889 – 1951) was a Norwegian barrister. He was born in Sande i Vestfold.
- After his examen artium he attended the Norwegian Military Academy for some time, reaching the rank of Second Lieutenant in the Field Artillery in 1912.
- He commenced law studies and graduated with the cand.jur.
- degree in 1916.
- After two years as a deputy judge in Lier, Røyken and Hurum District Court he received a lawyer's licence in 1918.
- He joined the law firm of barrister Harald Wellén, and worked there from 1918 to 1925 before starting his own firm.
- He was the official town attorney of his new hometown Drammen from 1937, and was a prominent citizen there.
- He was also a district branch leader in the Norwegian Bar Association.
- He was a barrister with access to working with Supreme Court cases, and he led several cases which attracted national attention.During the occupation of Norway by Nazi Germany, he was a member of the main Norwegian resistance group Milorg.
- He was arrested in October 1944 in Drammen, and initially held in cramp conditions with several other prisoners in a cell in the local exchange building Børsen.
- He was later imprisoned in Grini concentration camp from 19 December 1944 to the liberation of Norway.
- He died in January 1951, 61 years old.
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