Vidkun Quisling
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| Minister President of Norway | |
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In office 1 February 1942 – 9 May 1945 Serving with Reichskommissar Josef Terboven |
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In office 1931–1933 |
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| Preceded by | Torgeir Anderssen-Rysst |
| Succeeded by | Jens Isak de Lange Kobro |
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Vidkun Abraham Lauritz Jonssøn Quisling 18 July 1887 Fyresdal, Telemark, Norway |
| Died | 24 October 1945 (aged 58) Akershus Fortress, Oslo, Norway |
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Vidkun Abraham Lauritz Jonssøn Quisling (Norwegian: [ˈʋɪdkʉn ˈkʋɪslɪŋ] (
listen); 18 July 1887 – 24 October 1945) was a Norwegian military officer and politician who nominally headed the government of Norway after the country was occupied by Nazi Germany during World War II.
Quisling first came to international prominence as a close collaborator of Fridtjof Nansen, organizing humanitarian relief during the Russian famine of 1921 in Povolzhye. He was posted as a Norwegian diplomat to the Soviet Union, and for some time also managed British diplomatic affairs there. He returned to Norway in 1929, and served as Minister of Defence in the governments of Peder Kolstad (1931–32) and Jens Hundseid (1932–33), representing the Farmers' Party. Although Quisling achieved some popularity after his attacks on the political left, his party failed to win any seats in the Storting and was little more than peripheral in 1940. On 9 April 1940, with the German invasion of Norway in progress, he attempted to seize power in the world's first radio-broadcast coup d'état, but failed after the Germans refused to support his government.
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