Øistein Lars Hasvold (1908 – 1964) was a Norwegian organizational director. He was a member of

Fedrelandslaget The Fatherland League ( no, Fedrelandslaget) was a Norwegian right-wing, anti-communist political organisation in the interwar period. Founded in 1925, the movement aimed to unite all centre-to-right forces against the rise of the revolutionary M ...

in the 1930s, and was its secretary-general from 1938 to the disestablishment in 1940. The disestablishment followed the

German occupation of Norway 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 the ...

, and in January 1942 Hasvold joined the only legal party in the country, the Fascist party

Nasjonal Samling Nasjonal Samling (, NS; ) was a Norwegian 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 and a group of supporters such ...

(NS). Already from the autumn of 1941 he had been a close contact of NS politician

Alf Whist Alf Larsen Whist (6 August 1880 – 16 July 1962) was a Norwegian businessperson and politician for Nasjonal Samling. Pre-war life and career He was born in Halden, Fredrikshald as a son of Svend Larsen (1833–1893) and Sofie Mathilde Lauman ...

. Hasvold was instated as director of Norges Handelsforbund on 1 January 1943, then of Norges Næringssamband on 1 May 1943. Norges Næringssamband was an

employers' association An employers' organization or employers' association is a collective organization of manufacturers, retailers, or other employers of wage labor. Employers' organizations seek to coordinate the behavior of their member companies in matters of mutual ...

in which Whist was co-founder and president. Whist and Hasvold used it as a vehicle for political power, but also to outline technological visions for a future Fascist Norway. The German occupation ended on

8 May 1945 Victory in Europe Day is the day celebrating the formal acceptance by the Allies of World War II of Germany's unconditional surrender of its armed forces on Tuesday, 8 May 1945, marking the official end of World War II in Europe in the Easter ...

, and Hasvold promptly lost his job. As a part of the

legal purge in Norway after World War II The purge in Norway after World War II was a purge that took place between May 1945 and August 1948 against anyone who was deemed to have collaborated with the German occupation of the country. Several thousand Norwegians and foreign citizens w ...

, in 1948 he was sentenced to four years of forced labour. He died in 1964.

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1908 births 1964 deaths Fatherland League (Norway) Members of Nasjonal Samling People convicted of treason for Nazi Germany against Norway {{Norway-mil-bio-stub