Annæus Schjødt
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Annæus Schjødt (7 March 1888 – 12 October 1972) was a Norwegian
lawyer A lawyer is a person who practices law. The role of a lawyer varies greatly across different legal jurisdictions. A lawyer can be classified as an advocate, attorney, barrister, canon lawyer, civil law notary, counsel, counselor, solic ...
. He is best known as the
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of Vidkun Quisling.


Personal life

He was born in Kristiania as a son of Attorney General Annæus Johannes Schjødt (1857–1923) and Laura Marie Rømcke (1860–1893). In October 1914 he married Hedevig Petersen (1892–1966). The two were the parents of Annæus Schjødt Jr. and Karen Hedevig Schjødt, who married chief physician Thorstein Guthe.


Career

He took the examen artium in 1907 and the cand.jur. degree in 1911. He worked in Hadeland and Land District Court from 1913 to 1914. He was a junior solicitor in the law firm Bredal, Christiansen & Fougner from 1914, and lawyer from 1917 to 1920. He started his own firm in 1936. By the mid-1930s the firm was called Fougner, Schjødt, Grette og Smith. During the occupation of Norway by Nazi Germany, Schjødt and his wife joined the resistance organization 2A (Norwegian resistance), 2A. He had to flee to Sweden in the spring of 1942 and at the Norwegian legation in Stockholm he became leader of the refugee office. His wife was active in the sub-department, the sports office. During Schjødt's time the office moved to Kjesäter. In the autumn of 1943 the couple were ordered to move to London where the Norwegian government-in-exile was seated. Schjødt became leader of ''Norges Luftfartstyre''. He also used his background in law to lead the commissions ''London-utvalg I'' and ''London-utvalg II'', which prepared the principles for treason trials against Norwegians after the war. After the war, Schjødt was chosen as the
prosecutor A prosecutor is a legal representative of the prosecution in states with either the common law adversarial system or the Civil law (legal system), civil law inquisitorial system. The prosecution is the legal party responsible for presenting the ...
in the most high-profiled treason case in Norway, the Court of Appeal case against Vidkun Quisling. He called for the death sentence, which was unanimously agreed to in the Court of Appeal, and also in the Supreme Court. Other cases include the treason trials against Kjeld Stub Irgens and Axel Heiberg Stang and the review trial of Halldis Neegård Østbye. He was a board chairman of Forsikringsselskapet Viking and board member of Forsikringsselskapet Minerva and Avviklingsinstituttet. In 1965 he was decorated as a Commander of the Order of St. Olav. He died in October 1972 in Oslo.Steenstrup, 1973: p. 630


References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Schjoedt, Annaeus 1888 births 1972 deaths Lawyers from Oslo Norwegian resistance members Norwegian expatriates in Sweden Norwegian expatriates in the United Kingdom 20th-century Norwegian lawyers