Jonas Brunvoll (21 June 1894 – 1 December 1969) was a Norwegian advertisement manager, editor and politician for the Labour Party. He was born in

Ålesund Ålesund () is a List of towns and cities in Norway, town in Møre og Romsdal county, Norway. The town is the administrative centre of Ålesund Municipality. The centre of the town of Ålesund lies on the islands of Hessa, Aspøya, Ålesund, Asp� ...

as a son of fisherman Nils Brunvoll (1861–1944) and Beret Sæterø. In 1919 he married Kirsten Sørsdal (1895–1976). They settled at

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, and their sons

Gunnar Gunnar is a male first name of Nordic origin (''Gunnarr'' in Old Norse). The name Gunnar means fighter, soldier, and attacker, but mostly is referred to by the Viking saying which means Brave and Bold warrior (''gunnr'' "war" and ''arr'' "warrior ...

and Jonas Jr. became opera administrator and opera singer, respectively. After finishing middle school in 1910, he worked as a postal clerk until 1916. He took postal school in 1913, but also commerce school at Treider in 1917, whereupon he was hired as a bank clerk. From 1920 he worked in the press, and in 1923 he finished his fourth education; advertising school. He was elected as a member of

Bærum Bærum () is a list of municipalities of Norway, municipality in the Greater Oslo Region in Akershus County, Norway. It forms an affluent suburb of Oslo on the west coast of the city. Bærum is Norway's fifth largest municipality with a populatio ...

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in 1929, and was continuously re-elected. In 1936 he became a member of the municipal council's executive committee, and also board member of Bærum Hospital. He also served as board member of ''Oslo salgs- og reklameforening'' from 1936 to 1938. In 1939 he was hired as advertisement manager in the Labour Party main organ ''

Arbeiderbladet is a daily newspaper published in Oslo, Norway. The former party organ of the Norwegian Labour Party, the ties loosened over time from 1975 to 1999. It has borne several names, and was called ''Arbeiderbladet'' from 1923 to 1997. Eirik Hoff Lys ...

'', a job he kept until 1964. 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 ...

from 1940 to 1945, ''Arbeiderbladet'' was shut down already in the first year. His entire family joined the

Norwegian resistance movement The Norwegian resistance (Norwegian language, Norwegian: ''Motstandsbevegelsen'') to the German occupation of Norway, occupation of Norway by Nazi Germany began after Operation Weserübung in 1940 and ended in 1945. It took several forms: *As ...

. Jonas Brunvoll was arrested by the Nazi authorities in October 1941, being imprisoned in

Bredtveit concentration camp Bredtveit Prison (formally Bredtveit Prison Service, Custody and Supervision Unit, ) is a prison located in the neighborhood of Bredtvet in Oslo, Norway. During World War II it was a concentration camp. Pre-World War II It originated at Bredtv ...

. On 31 July 1942 he was transferred to

Grini concentration camp Grini prison camp (, ) was a Nazi concentration camp in Bærum, Norway, which operated between 1941 and May 1945. Ila Detention and Security Prison is now located here. History Grini was originally built as a women's prison, near an old croft ...

. After two transfers in August 1942, first to

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and then to Bredtveit again, he was incarcerated at Grini for a second time from November 1942. On 30 September 1943 he was further transferred to

Sachsenhausen concentration camp Sachsenhausen () or Sachsenhausen-Oranienburg was a German Nazi concentration camp in Oranienburg, Germany, used from 1936 until April 1945, shortly before the defeat of Nazi Germany in May later that year. It mainly held political prisoners t ...

, where he remained until the camp was liberated. His son Jonas and wife Kirsten were arrested in January 1942, while Gunnar narrowly escaped. Jonas wound up in Sachsenhausen, Kirsten in Ravensbrück and

Auschwitz Auschwitz, or Oświęcim, was a complex of over 40 concentration and extermination camps operated by Nazi Germany in occupied Poland (in a portion annexed into Germany in 1939) during World War II and the Holocaust. It consisted of Auschw ...

, but both survived. After the Second World War, Brunvoll returned to ''Arbeiderbladet'' which had resumed operations. In 1946 he ended his spell in Bærum municipal council, but was upgraded to chairman of Bærum Hospital, which he remained until 1964. He also chaired ''Griniklubben'' from 1946 to 1948, and was a board member of ''Norsk samband for politiske fanger''; two associations for political prisoners. A temperance activist, he became a board member of ''Arbeidernes avholdslandslag'' in 1945 and served as chairman from 1958 to 1961. He also edited the magazine ''Avholds-Arbeideren'' until 1961. He died in December 1969.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Brunvoll, Jonas 1894 births 1969 deaths Politicians from Ålesund Labour Party (Norway) politicians Bærum politicians Norwegian resistance members Bredtveit concentration camp survivors Grini concentration camp survivors Sachsenhausen concentration camp survivors Norwegian temperance activists Norwegian magazine editors