Erling Storrusten (28 September 1923 – 10 June 2018) was a Norwegian business executive. He was born in

Tretten Tretten is a village in Øyer Municipality in Innlandet county, Norway. The village is located on the Losna lake, which is part of the Gudbrandsdalslågen river. Tretten is located in the Gudbrandsdal valley, along the Gudbrandsdalslågen r ...

. He served as managing director of the Norway Travel Association from 1963 to 1970 and of the

Norwegian Automobile Federation Norwegian Automobile Federation (, NAF) is a Norwegian association of car owners, established in 1924, and member of Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile The Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile (FIA; ) is an international organ ...

from 1971 to 1986, and edited the 1989 and 1992 editions of the road atlas ''

NAF Veibok ''NAF Veibok'' is a triannual publication issued by the Norwegian Automobile Federation. The book contains road maps, route descriptions and other road information. The first edition of the book came in 1928. The 29th edition, published in 2010, c ...

''. As a student during the

occupation of Norway by Nazi Germany The occupation of Norway by Nazi Germany during the Second World War began on 9 April 1940 after Operation Weserübung. Conventional armed resistance to the German invasion ended on 10 June 1940, and Nazi Germany controlled Norway until th ...

, Storrusten was a member of the clandestine intelligence organization XU, and among his activities was supervision of activities at the Wehrmacht headquarters in

Lillehammer Lillehammer () is a municipality in Innlandet county, Norway. It is located in the traditional district of Gudbrandsdal. The administrative centre of the municipality is the town of Lillehammer. Some of the more notable villages in the munici ...

. He resided at

Østerås Østerås is a village in Akershus, Norway Norway, officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic countries, Nordic country located on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. The remote Arctic island of Jan Mayen and the archipelago ...

. He died in 2018 at the age of 94.

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1923 births 2018 deaths People from Øyer Norwegian businesspeople Norwegian resistance members XU {{Norway-business-bio-stub