Christian Gottlieb Hilt (29 January 1888 – 5 August 1958) was a Norwegian newspaper editor and politician for the

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and

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parties. Hilt was born in Bergen, and started studies in 1906 but left the higher education system after a couple of years. He instead became subeditor in the newspaper '' Smaalenenes Social-Demokrat'', and was acting editor-in-chief from 1910 to 1911. Hilt then worked in ''

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'', '' Bratsberg-Demokraten'' and '' Social-Demokraten''. In 1914, he was hired in ''

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'', where he was promoted to subeditor in October, and in 1916 he was hired in ''

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'' where he became editor in 1918. Already in 1919, Hilt left ''Ny Tid'' to become a manager in the news bureau Arbeidernes Pressekontor. He was also a delegate at the Fourth

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Congress in 1922, and participated in the 4th and 7th Enlarged Plenums of the Executive Committee of the Comintern in 1926 and 1927. In 1923, Hilt broke away from the Labour Party, joining the Communist Party. He was elected party secretary in 1925, and was a politburo member from 1926 to 1929. He had two spells as editor-in-chief for ''

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'', from July 1926 to the spring of 1927 and from the autumn 1927 to 1929. The hiatus came because Hilt stayed in the Soviet Union for a period. Around 1926–1927, he also served on the editorial board of ''

Proletaren ''Proletaren'' (meaning ''The Proletarian'' in English) was a Norwegian periodical published by the Communist Party. History and profile ''Proletaren'' was started in September 1923 during the fraction in-fighting in the Labour Party which resul ...

''. Hilt then stayed in the Soviet Union from 1929 to 1936, where he did various work for Comintern, and was a correspondent for newspapers all over Scandinavia. In 1937, Hilt returned to Norway as secretary of a Norway–Soviet friendship association. He also edited a communist periodical ''Nytt Land'' from 1937 to 1940. During the occupation of Norway by Nazi Germany, Hilt was a member of the Norwegian resistance movement. He was described by Heinrich Fehlis in an August 1940 edition of ''

Meldungen aus Norwegen ''Meldungen aus Norwegen'' (Reports from Norway) is a series of reports on the situation in occupied Norway during World War II, by the Oslo department of the German ''Sicherheitspolizei'' (SiPo) and ''Sicherheitsdienst'' (SD). The reports were edi ...

''. When the

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'' started in 1941, Hilt edited it together with

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. The newspaper was

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ed, and published fortnightly. Hilt also edited ''Radio-Nytt''. While Heiestad was arrested in 1941, Hilt made good his escape to

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. After the war, Hilt was again secretary of a new Norway–Soviet friendship association. He died in August 1958, and is buried at Østre Aker.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Hilt, Christian 1888 births 1958 deaths Journalists from Bergen Norwegian newspaper editors Labour Party (Norway) politicians Communist Party of Norway politicians Norwegian resistance members Norwegian expatriates in the Soviet Union Norwegian expatriates in Sweden