Egil Holst Torkildsen

Egil Holst Torkildsen (21 July 1916 – 17 July 1979[1]) was a Norwegian national socialist editor and activist.[2][3]

A strong proponent of pan-German national socialism, he was a member of the National Socialist Workers' Party of Norway (NNSAP) during the 1930s, until reluctantly joining Nasjonal Samling (NS) in 1940, some months after the NNSAP was dissolved.[2] He was editor of Norsk Folkeblad in 1939–40, and a staff member of Hirden until he was hired as editor of Germaneren, the paper of Germanske SS Norge (GSSN) in 1942.[2][3] Along with the leader of GSSN, Leif Schøren, Torkildsen was set aside by NS in January 1945 and sent to Germany after attempts of a pro-German coup against Vidkun Quisling and NS.[2][4] He was enrolled in the Waffen-SS during the final stage of the war.[3] Arriving in Berlin on 2 April, he fled on 16 April, and reached Denmark fourteen days later.[2]

Torkildsen was sentenced to five years imprisonment for treason after the war.[2] As a wanted traitor, Torkildsen fled from Norway in 1947 along with four other Norwegian Nazis on the sailboat Mi Casa, and arrived in A Coruña, Spain.[3] From Spain he travelled to Buenos Aires, Argentina, where he became chairman of a local association of Norwegian Nazis.[3] In 1956 Torkildsen contacted Norwegian authorities asking to return to Norway.[3] He died in 1979 and is buried at Vestre gravlund in Oslo.[1]