Tormod Kristoffer Hustad
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Tormod Kristoffer Hustad (15 February 1889 – 19 August 1973) was the Norwegian minister of agriculture in the 1940 pro-Nazi puppet government of
Vidkun Quisling Vidkun Abraham Lauritz Jonssøn Quisling (; ; 18 July 1887 – 24 October 1945) was a Norwegian military officer, politician and Collaboration with Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy, Nazi collaborator who Quisling regime, headed the government of N ...
, provisional councilor of state for agriculture in the government appointed by
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Josef Terboven Josef Antonius Heinrich Terboven (23 May 1898 – 8 May 1945) was a German Nazi Party official and politician who was the long-serving ''Gauleiter'' of Gau Essen and the '' Reichskommissar'' for Norway during the German occupation. Terboven wa ...
in 1940, and minister of labour in the NS
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1942–1944. He was replaced by
Hans Skarphagen Hans Skarphagen (8 September 1888 – 10 February 1971) was a Norwegian engineer and NS politician. He was a professor at the Norwegian Institute of Technology. In 1944 he replaced Tormod Hustad as minister of labour in the NS government. I ...
in 1944. In the post-war legal purges he was convicted of treason and sentenced to life imprisonment and forced labour. Hustad is also known as the designer of the
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, having won an international design competition as an architecture student in 1914.


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1889 births 1973 deaths Ministers of agriculture and food of Norway Members of Nasjonal Samling Norwegian politicians convicted of crimes Norwegian prisoners sentenced to life imprisonment People convicted of treason for Nazi Germany against Norway Prisoners sentenced to life imprisonment by Norway {{Norway-politician-1880s-stub