Ole Wehus

Ole Wehus (25 June 1909 – 10 March 1947) was a Norwegian police official and member of the fascist party Nasjonal Samling who was sentenced to the death penalty and executed in 1947. He was born in Kristiansand. During the occupation of Norway by Nazi Germany he was appointed as a police officer for the Statspolitiet (State Police, STAPO) from the spring of 1942 until the end of the war. He served most of the period in Kristiansand, where he cooperated with the Gestapo at their local headquarters, known as Arkivet.

Ole Wehus
Born(1909-05-25)25 May 1909
Kristiansand, Norway
Died10 March 1947(1947-03-10) (aged 37)
Akershus Fortress, Oslo, Norway
AllegianceNazi Germany
Years of service1942–1945
RankNorwegian STAPO (police) officer/Gestapo agent
UnitSTAPO 1942–1945
Battles/warsWorld War II

In the legal purge after the war, he was tried for 48 accounts of torture and maltreatment of his own countrymen, often in a more brutal way than he was ordered to. He was also found guilty for two accounts of complicity to murder. Wehus was sentenced to death by the Supreme Court of Norway for treason in February 1947, and executed by firing squad at Akershus Fortress on 10 March the same year.[1][2][3]

References
  1. Jaklin, Asbjørn (2011). De dødsdømte (in Norwegian). Oslo: Gyldendal. pp. 170–181. ISBN 978-82-05-41088-6.
  2. LANDSSVIKSAKEN MOT OLE WEHUS National Archives of Norway, blog (in Norwegian)
  3. Norske kollaboratører på Arkivet Arkivet education- and documentation centre (in Norwegian)


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