Johannes Holt (12 November 1917 – 11 January 2011) was a Norwegian resistance member, engineer and mountaineer. He grew up in

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and took his construction engineering education at the

Norwegian Institute of Technology The Norwegian Institute of Technology (Norwegian: ''Norges tekniske høgskole'', NTH) was a science institute in Trondheim, Norway. It was established in 1910, and existed as an independent technical university for 58 years, after which it was m ...

. He worked with bridges in the Norwegian Public Roads Administration, and also participated in the Norwegian Campaign in 1940. From 1941 to 1945 he was a resistance member in XU; smuggling bridge designs to be microfilmed and duplicated. Accomplices in doing so include fellow bridge engineer

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. At the same time Holt was a liaison to the Reichskommissariat Norwegen and Organisation Todt, the forces against which XU fought, "because of his mastering of the

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". After leaving the Public Roads Administration in 1949, he worked in Berntsen og Boe from 1949 to 1951, Nordisk Aluminiumindustri from 1951 to 1953 and Berntsen og Boe again from 1953 to 1957. He spent most of his career as chief executive of his own construction consulting company Johs Holt AS, from 1957 to 1981. Important projects include

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, the first larger cable-stayed bridge in Norway, as well as the even larger cable-stayed bridges Skarnsund Bridge and

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. He also worked with the fundaments for the monument Sverd i fjell. Holt was a member of the mountaineering society

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. Having taken up mountaineering in his fifties, Holt ascended mountains like

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at the age of 86 and

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at the age of 87. He lived in Nadderud until he died in January 2011.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Holt, Johannes 1917 births 2011 deaths People from Vestfold Norwegian Army personnel of World War II Norwegian resistance members XU Norwegian Institute of Technology Norwegian engineers Bridge engineers Norwegian mountain climbers