Henrik Rogstad (13 April 1916 – 10 May 1945) was a Norwegian politician. He was a police chief for the Norwegian fascist party ''

Nasjonal Samling The Nasjonal Samling (, NS; ) was a Norway, Norwegian far-right politics, far-right political party active from 1933 to 1945. It was the only legal party of Norway from 1942 to 1945. It was founded by former minister of defence Vidkun Quisling a ...

''. During the

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he was a ''fylkesfører'' (''

Gauleiter A ''Gauleiter'' () was a regional leader of the Nazi Party (NSDAP) who served as the head of a ''Administrative divisions of Nazi Germany, Gau'' or ''Reichsgau''. ''Gauleiter'' was the third-highest Ranks and insignia of the Nazi Party, rank in ...

'') in the county of

Sør-Trøndelag Sør-Trøndelag (; ) was a Counties of Norway, county comprising the southern portion of the present-day Trøndelag county in Norway. It bordered the old Nord-Trøndelag () county as well as the counties of Møre og Romsdal, Oppland, and Hedmark. ...

. Rogstad was a member of the '' Nasjonal Samling Ungdomsfylking'' fascist youth organisation and became active within the party in 1940. At the initiative of Rolf Jørgen Fuglesang Rogstad was appointed ''fylkesfører'' for Sør-Trøndelag. He was a pan-Germanist and helped the German occupational forces to make up lists of people that could be taken hostages during the martial law in Trondheim in 1942. Rogstad was appointed leader of the paramilitary organisation ''

Hirden ''Hirden'' (the ''hird'') was a uniformed paramilitary organisation during the occupation of Norway by Nazi Germany, modelled the same way as the German Sturmabteilungen. Overview Vidkun Quisling's fascist party Nasjonal Samling frequently use ...

'' after its original leader Karl Marthinsen was assassinated in February 1945. In April of the same year he was also appointed chief of the police unit '' Statspolitiet''. In May 1945, Rogstad along with Jonas Lie and Sverre Riisnæs held up at the farm Skallum in

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. When the German capitulation was a fact he committed suicide by gunshot.

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