Gulbrand Lunde

Gulbrand Oscar Johan Lunde
Lunde c. 1940
Minister of Culture and Public Information (The National Government)
In office
1 February 1942 – 25 October 1942
Minister of Culture and Public Information (Reichskommissariat Norwegen)
In office
25 September 1941 – 1 February 1942
Provisional Nasjonal Samling Councilor of State for Culture and Public Information (Reichskommissariat Norwegen)
In office
25 September 1940 – 25 September 1941
Minister of Social Affairs (Quisling's First Cabinet) (did not take office)
In office
9 April 1940 – 15 April 1940
Personal details
Born(1901-09-14)14 September 1901
Bergen, Sweden-Norway
Died25 October 1942(1942-10-25) (aged 41)
Rauma, German-occupied Norway
Cause of deathDrowning
Political partyNasjonal Samling
ProfessionChemist
TheStatsakten ceremony at Akershus Castle in Oslo, Norway, on 1 February 1942, in which Reichskommissar Josef Terboven installed Vidkun Quisling (center) as "Minister President" of Norway. Lunde sits second to the left from Quisling.
Lunde stands at left for a ceremony during the Nasjonal Samling′s Eighth Party Congress, held in Olso on 26–27 September 1942. Quisling is at center.
Quisling welcomes Terboven to Trinity Church (Norwegian: Trefoldighetskirken) in Oslo for Lunde's grand state funeral on 1 November 1942.

Gulbrand Oscar Johan Lunde (14 September 1901 – 25 October 1942) was a Norwegian chemist and politician of the Nasjonal Samling party who became a minister in the collaborationist government of Vidkun Quisling during World War II.[1][2] His 1942 death was deemed accidental, although a 2012 biography of Lunde concluded that he was assassinated because his cultural views clashed with those of the government of Nazi Germany.[3]

  1. ^ "Lunde, Gulbrand" (in Norwegian). NorgesLexi.com. Archived from the original on 24 December 2011. Retrieved 30 August 2008.
  2. ^ "Lille Goebbels". Time. 9 November 1942. Archived from the original on 6 September 2009. Retrieved 18 January 2009.
  3. ^ Arntsen, Jan Magne and Thor Geir Harestad (2012): Triumf og tragedie: historien om NS-minister Gulbrand Lunde (Triumph and Tragedy: The story about the NS-minister Gulbrand Lunde) (in Norwegian). Sandnes: Commentum.