Frode Rinnan

Frode Rinnan (12 December 1905 – 15 February 1997) was a Norwegian architect and politician for the Labour Party.

He was born in Trondhjem as a son of ship inspector Carl Julius Rinnan (1881–1963) and his wife Thonny Nielsen (1880–1975). After finishing his secondary education in 1925, he enrolled at the Norwegian Institute of Technology where he graduated in architecture in 1930. He chaired the Student Society in Trondheim in the autumns of 1928 and 1929. He worked as an assistant of architect Ole Øvergaard from 1931 to 1932, before working in the publishing house Fram Forlag for a year. He was a member of the revolutionary socialist group Mot Dag and the pacifist group Clarté. He was also active in Arbeidernes Idrettsforbund with planning of sports venues.

He later worked in HSB in Gothenburg before starting his own architect's office Rinnan og Tveten together with Olav Tveten. During the German occupation of Norway, which started in 1940, Rinnan joined the Norwegian resistance movement. He was arrested on 11 June 1941 for working on an illegal newspaper. He was imprisoned at Møllergata 19 until July 1941, then at Grini concentration camp until April 1942, then at Møllergata again until August 1943, then at Grini again until 30 September 1943. He was then shipped to Sachsenhausen concentration camp, where he was incarcerated until the war's end.

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