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Place of Birth: Løten, Hedmark, Norway
About Ottar Lie
- Ottar Lie (5 March 1896 – 1 March 1943) was a Norwegian communist and resistance member. He was born in Løten, to a father from Vang and a mother from Ås.
- He was married twice, last to Inga, née Knutsen.
- He had two children, and lived in Oslo.He was originally a member of the Norwegian Labour Party.
- In 1921 he was hired as county secretary in Hedmark.
- At the time he was also active in the Young Communist League (until 1923 the Labour Party youth wing).
- In 1923, at the founding of the Communist Party, Lie became Hedmark's representative in the central board.
- He continued as party secretary in Hedmark until 1927, then in Oslo for the party nationwide.
- Before it was stopped in 1940, Lie was also a board member of the newspaper Arbeideren.He was a member of the Communist resistance movement, as Norway was occupied by Nazi Germany from 1940.
- In the now-illegal Communist Party he was one of the leading figures together with Henry W.
- Kristiansen, Just Lippe, Johan Strand Johansen and Emil Løvlien.
- He was held imprisoned in Møllergata 19 from August to September 1940.
- Eventually, together with Arne Gauslaa he led the party's organizational centre which had contact with communist resistance members who hid in the mountains.
- The centre was moved from Steinsfjorden to Vikersund in October 1942.
- The centre was blown after former resistance member Karsten Sølvberg had cracked during Gestapo torture, become a Gestapo agent and ratted them out.
- Already on 30 October 1942 the centre in Vikersund was surrounded by Gestapists.
- Gauslaa and another person were shot to death.
- Lie was arrested and tortured.
- He was held at Møllergata 19 from 30 October 1942, then in Grini detention camp from 24 February 1943.
- He was transferred to Trandum on 1 March 1943 and executed at Trandumskogen.
- He was buried in Oslo.His brother Ivar Lie was also a communist resistance member, who managed to flee to Sweden.
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