Alf Sanengen (2 October 1913 – 13 January 1991) was a Norwegian resistance member during World War II, chemist and research administrator. He was born in

Glemmen Glemmen is a parish and former municipality with the city of Fredrikstad, Østfold county, Norway. History The parish of ''Glemminge'' was established as a municipality 1 January 1838 (see formannskapsdistrikt). A part of Glemmen with 2,013 inhabi ...

. During the occupation of Norway by Nazi Germany, Sanengen was among the central leaders of the

civil resistance Civil resistance is political action that relies on the use of nonviolent resistance by ordinary people to challenge a particular power, force, policy or regime. Civil resistance operates through appeals to the adversary, pressure and coercion: i ...

. He was manager of ''Sentralinstitutt for industriell forskning'' (SI) from 1950 to 1975. He was chairman of the board of

Borregaard Borregaard is a Norwegian company, established in 1889 in the southeastern town of Sarpsborg in Østfold county. Its main products were traditionally pulp and paper. The company later started producing chemicals based on timber as a raw materi ...

from 1965. He was a member of the gentlemen's skiing club SK Fram since 1970.

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