Albin Konrad Eines (9 June 1886 – 19 May 1947) was a Norwegian newspaper editor and politician for the Labour and Communist Labour parties. He later became a

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, working for Norwegian and

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Nazis during the

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Early career

Eines was born in

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. He took a

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and

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education in

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, where he joined the

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movement under

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. He moved back to Norway in 1909, after the

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. Eines was a member of Fagopposisjonen av 1911 and Norges Socialdemokratiske Ungdomsforbund, and was deputy leader for some time, but resigned his NSU membership in 1921 as he felt too old. He was a sub-editor in ''

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'' from 1911, and later worked in '' Vest-Finmarkens Arbeiderblad'', ''

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'' and ''

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''. Eines edited ''Folkets Dagblad'' (before 1921 named '' Nybrott'') from 1919 to 1922, when sub-editor

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took over.

Communist Party

In 1920, Eines announced his scepticism towards the

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. However, he changed heart and joined the Communist Party when it was split from the Labour Party in 1923. Eines started working in ''

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'', and edited that newspaper for a short while. He was a

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at the Fifth

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Congress in 1925. In the spring of 1927, Eines took over as editor of the main newspaper of the Communist Party, ''

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''. He was absent during the summer, as he was imprisoned (five weeks of detention, without conviction) together with Henry W. Kristiansen,

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and

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,Lorenz, 1983: pp. 88–89 but returned to edit the newspaper in the autumn of 1927 before Christian Hilt took over later that year.

Right-winger

Eines left the Communist Party around New Years' 1927–1928. Already in 1928, he started working for the

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newspaper ''

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''. In 1940, Eines moved to the

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newspaper ''

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''. He also joined the Fascist party

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(NS). He thus found a position during the

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, when NS and the German Nazis took over power. In March 1942, Eines was hired as sub-editor, Odd Fossum's second-in-command, on the newspaper ''

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''. The newspaper belonged to the

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where the Nazis recently had usurped full power. In December 1943, he was promoted to editor-in-chief, and he remained so until July 1944. In 1947, during the

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, Eines was convicted of treason and sentenced to four years in prison. He died in prison that same year.

References

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