Emil Stang (jurist)

This article is about the Chief Justice of Norway. For the Prime Minister of Norway, see Emil Stang.

Emil Stang
Born(1882-09-22)22 September 1882
Kristiania, Norway
Died21 December 1964(1964-12-21) (aged 82)
Occupation(s)Jurist and politician, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Norway
ParentEmil Stang

Emil Stang, Jr. (22 September 1882 – 21 December 1964) was a Norwegian jurist and politician for the Norwegian Labour Party and for the Communist Party of Norway. He was later the 13th Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Norway.

Stang finished his secondary education in 1900, and graduated as cand.jur. in 1905. He practised as a barrister in Kristiania from 1911. He joined the Norwegian Labour Party in 1911, and was elected vice chairman from 1918.[1] He was a delegate to the Founding Congress of Comintern in Moscow in 1919.[2][3] After the death of Kyrre Grepp he was acting leader of the Norwegian Labour Party, from 1922 to 1923. He participated in the formation of the Communist Party of Norway in 1923, where he became a member of the Central Committee. He left the Communist Party in 1928. He was a member of the Kristiania City Council from 1917 to 1928.[1] He was a substitute to the Parliament of Norway from 1922 to 1924. He was also a member of a number of committees on law reforms.[2] From 1928 Stang concentrated on his juridical career. He was appointed Supreme Court judge from 1937. During the occupation of Norway by Nazi Germany he was arrested and held at the prison Møllergata 19 in Oslo and at the Sachsenhausen concentration camp in Germany. He was Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Norway from 1946 to 1952.[2]

During the legal purge in Norway after World War II, Stang was one of the minority of judges to vote to execute his cousin, Axel Heiberg Stang, for treason, after he was convicted of collaborationism.

  1. ^ a b Friis, Jakob; Hegna, Trond, eds. (1936). "Stang, Emil". Arbeidernes Leksikon (in Norwegian). Vol. 6. Oslo: Arbeidermagasinets Forlag.
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  3. ^ Hegna, Trond (1934). "Komintern". In Friis, Jakob; Hegna, Trond (eds.). Arbeidernes Leksikon (in Norwegian). Vol. 4. Oslo: Arbeidermagasinets Forlag.