Henry Thingstad, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Norwegian resistance member
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Place of Birth: Trondheim, Sør-Trøndelag, Norway
About Henry Thingstad
- Henry Thingstad (9 April 1916 – 19 May 1943) was a Norwegian sports official and communist resistance member. He was born in Trondhjem to a mother from Skogn and a father from Tynset.
- Both died before Thingstad turned twenty.
- He was a watchmaker by profession.
- Before the Second World War he was active in the workers' sports club Arbeidernes TF and the Workers' Confederation of Sports.
- He chaired the district workers' sports organization in Sør-Trøndelag from 1938 to 1940.
- He also chaired the workers' sports club SK Ørnulf.
- In 1939 he supported the merger between the workers' and bourgeois sports organizations, in order to create a unity front against fascism.He had been a member of the Young Communist League of Norway since 1931.
- During the occupation of Norway by Nazi Germany, Thingstad was one of the first to participate in the Norwegian resistance movement in Trøndelag, with the "Thingstad Group".
- His resistance activity was communist by nature, spurred by the banning of the Communist Party of Norway in August 1940.
- The Nazis had an active provocateur and infiltrator in Trøndelag, Henry Rinnan, who managed to unveil most of the communist resistance leaders in the district in October and November 1941.
- Thingstad had then participated in a failed assassination attempt on Rinnan.
- From early 1942 Thingstad became a part of the district leadership and underground central committee of the Communist Party.Thingstad was captured in February 1943 after involvement from Rinnan.
- He was subjected to torture.
- He was imprisoned in Vollan concentration camp.
- A German court-martial sentenced him to death on 4 May 1943, and he was executed at Kristiansten Fortress together with ten other people on 19 May.
- His body was not disposed of, but buried in the Nidaros Cathedral graveyard.
- Tore Pryser's book Klassen og nasjonen 1935-1946 featured a goodbye letter Thingstad wrote in his cell.
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