Aake Anker Ording (18 December 1899 – 1979) was a Norwegian civil servant and politician for

Mot Dag Mot Dag (, 'Towards Day') was a Norwegian political group. The group was active from the 1920s to the early 1930s and was first affiliated with the Labour Party. After World War II, many of its former members were leaders in Norwegian politics and ...

and the Labour Party. He was born in

Halden Halden (), between 1665 and 1928 known as Fredrikshald, is both a town and a municipality in Viken county, Norway. The municipality borders Sarpsborg to the northwest, Rakkestad to the north and Aremark to the east, as well as the Swedish mun ...

. He was a second cousin of actor

Jørn Ording Jørn Ording (21 February 1916 – 11 March 2001) was a Norwegian actor, theatre instructor and screenwriter. He was born in Kristiania as a son of Jørgen Fredrik Ording (1880–1930). He was also a nephew of Fredrik and Johannes Ording, a firs ...

and historian and politician

Arne Ording Arne Ording (7 May 1898 – 26 July 1967) was a Norwegian historian and politician for ''Mot Dag'' and the Labour Party. Pre-war life and career Ording was born in Kristiania as a son of theology professor Johannes Ording (1869–1929) and Fredr ...

, and a first cousin once removed of educator and theologian Fredrik Ording and theologian Hans Nielsen Hauge Ording. He graduated from the

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with the cand.jur. degree in 1924. While studying he joined a study circle of young, revolutionary intellectuals; Aake Anker Ording, Arne Ording,

Erling Falk Erling Falk (12 August 1887 – 31 July 1940) was a Norwegian politician, ideologist and writer. He was active in the Norwegian Students' Society, the Norwegian Labour Party and the Communist Party, but is best known as a leading figure in the ...

Viggo Hansteen Harald Viggo Hansteen (13 September 1900 – 10 September 1941) was a Norwegian lawyer. He was executed during the Occupation of Norway by Nazi Germany. Biography Harald Viggo Hansteen was born in Oslo, Norway. As a student he was a part o ...

and

Trond Hegna Trond Hegna (2 October 1898 – 20 January 1992) was a Norwegian author, journalist and editor. He served as a member of the Norwegian Parliament from Rogaland from 1949–1965. Biography He was born in Kristiania (now Oslo), Norway. He ...

in particular. These would form the backbone of the group

. In 1927 Ording became the first secretary-general of ''Nordisk Clartéforbund'' (the Nordic Clarté Association), which organized the Danish, Finnish,

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and Swedish branches of the organization Clarté. He was probably aware of Erling Falk's infamous embezzlement of Norwegian Students' Society funds in 1926–1927, as he gradually became part of a Mot Dag "triumvirate" of Falk, himself and Gunnar Røise, but unlike Falk he was welcomed to the Labour Party when Mot Dag was dissolved in 1936. Ording was a member of Mot Dag's secretariat formed in 1935 when Falk drifted away as a leader, and was present (together with Arne Ording, Trond Hegna and

Karl Evang Karl Evang (19 October 1902 – 3 January 1981) was a Norwegian physician and civil servant. He was born in Oslo, Kristiania as a son of assisting secretary Jens Ingolf Evang (1873–1914) and Anna Beate Wexelsen (1875–1954). He was a brother o ...

) during membership discussion meetings with the Labour Party. From 1924 to 1928 Ording worked in his own attorney's office together with Viggo Hansteen. From 1933 to 1940 he ran an attorney's office with Clarté leader

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. He fled to the United Kingdom when World War II reached Norway in 1940. He was acting director of the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation-in-exile before Toralf Øksnevad reached the United Kingdom from Sweden. He then worked in the Bank of Norway from 1940 to 1942, then as assistant secretary in the

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. In 1945 he became acting assistant secretary in the

Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs The Royal Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs ( Norwegian (Bokmål): ''Det kongelige utenriksdepartement''; Norwegian (Nynorsk): ''Det kongelege utanriksdepartement'') is the foreign ministry of the Kingdom of Norway. It was established on June ...

, and he was an advisor for the Norwegian delegation to the

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in 1946. He was also a secretary for the Labour Party parliamentary group for some time. He worked in the

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from 1947. During this period he became internationally known for initiating the fundraiser United Nations Appeal for Children. Wrote ''

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'' magazine; "the worldwide campaign ... was conceived by Norway's tall, blue-eyed, idealistic U.N. Staffer Aake Ording, to fill a gap left by the world's governments". As a later secretary of international affairs in the Labour Party, Ording was a particularly strong supporter of

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. He was a founding member of the Norwegian Israel Committee, in the wake of the

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was the first chairman. His second cousin and Mot Dag fellow Arne Ording became an important advisor for the Labour Party too. Aake Anker Ording died in 1979.

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