''Samhold'' was a Norwegian newspaper, published in

Gjøvik is a municipality in Innlandet county, Norway. It is located in the traditional district of Toten. The administrative centre of the municipality is town of Gjøvik. Some of the villages in Gjøvik include Biri, Bybrua, and Hunndalen. The ...

Oppland Oppland is a former county in Norway which existed from 1781 until its dissolution on 1 January 2020. The old Oppland county bordered the counties of Trøndelag, Møre og Romsdal, Sogn og Fjordane, Buskerud, Akershus, Oslo and Hedmark. Th ...

county. From 1920 to 1945 it was named ''Vestopland'', and from 1965 to 1984 ''Samhold/Velgeren''. It started on 1 January 1885, by Johan Enger who felt that the existing

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organ '' Gjøviks Blad'' was too conservative. It was sold to bookprinter C. F. Hansen in 1912, and then to the

Norwegian Agrarian Association The Norwegian Agrarian Association ( no, Norges Bondelag) is the largest Norwegian interest organization for farmers. It functions both as a labour union and as a trade union. It negotiates with the Norwegian Farmers and Smallholders Union T ...

in 1920. Under ownership of the Agrarian Association, the newspaper was merged with ''Gjøviks Blad'' to form ''Vestopland'', signalizing its geographic anchor in the region

Vest-Oppland Vestoppland is a traditional district in Innlandet, Norway. The name, Western Uplands, stems from a time when the district was the western part of the Uplands. It now consists of the districts Land, Hadeland, Toten and Gjøvik (which itself cons ...

. The allegiance shifted from Liberal to

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, and under editor-in-chief Torstein Lange, formerly with ''Gjøviks Blad'', it became increasingly Nazi-friendly. It was thus allowed to continue publishing during the

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. After the occupation, which ended together with World War II in 1945, the entire staff save for journalist Erling Espeland were indicted for treason. Erling Espeland was promoted to editor after the war. The newspaper had been stopped on 8 May 1945, and resumed from 20 June 1945 without the thoroughly compromised name ''Vestopland''. The name ''Samhold'' was instead taken back. In October 1965 it incorporated Liberal competitor ''

Velgeren ''Velgeren'' ("The Voter") was a Norwegian newspaper, published in Gjøvik in Oppland county. It started on 2 September 1904 under the name ''Vælgeren'', and was affiliated with the United Norwegian Workers' Association (''De forenede norske Arb ...

'', and had the name ''Samhold/Velgeren'' until 1984. The newspaper went bankrupt in 1991, but continued until its final issue on 2 September 1998.

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