Victor Mogens

Victor Andreas Emanuel Mogens (16 August 1886 – 17 January 1964) was a Norwegian journalist, editor and politician for the Fatherland League.

He was born in Bergen, and grew up in Bergen, Trondheim, Kristiania and Holmestrand before returning to Bergen to finish his secondary education at Bergen Cathedral School in 1905. He then went through some years of law studies. He was a journalist in Landsbladet from 1910 to 1911, and was then hired in Verdens Gang where he soon became subeditor. He then edited the periodical Ukens Revy from 1914 to 1921 and his own magazine Utenrikspolitikken from 1921 to 1924, but the latter publication went defunct. He was a journalist in Vor Verden from 1927 and editor from 1929 to 1932. He also edited Norges Næringsveier.

Mogens had a parallel career in the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation radio. He started as a foreign news journalist there in 1927, and soon started as a commentator. Some liked him, but many complained about him being biased, and he was pressured to resign in 1936. Among the complainers were the British legation in Norway. Mogens instead started and edited his own publication, Utenrikspolitisk kronikk.

In the same year he was a candidate for the Norwegian parliamentary election, 1936 for the anti-Communist Fatherland League organization for the constituency Akershus. The candicacy was unsuccessful, but he chaired this organization from 1938.

Fedrelandslaget was disestablished in 1940, when Nazi Germany invaded Norway on 9 April 1940 as a part of World War II. The Nazi Vidkun Quisling performed a coup d'état, but Mogens tried to have Quisling removed, as he was still hoping that Fedrelandslaget and not Quisling's party Nasjonal Samling would be the main cooperator with the German occupants. On 26 April 1940, the Bremen-based broadcaster of Norwegian-language propagandistic news, Edvard Sylou-Creutz, lamented the absence of Mogens as a commentator, stating that if Mogens had continued, the Norwegian people might have been more friendly towards Germany.

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