Frank Meidell Falch (11 August 1920 – 15 December 2013) was a Norwegian media director. He hailed from Kvinnherad. During the occupation of Norway by Nazi Germany he was arrested by the Nazi authorities in the end of June 1942. He was imprisoned in

Ulven concentration camp Ulven detention camp (German language, German: ''Polizeihäftlingslager Ulven,'' no, Ulven fangeleir ("''Ulven"'' means "the wolf")) was a Nazi concentration camps in Norway, concentration camp in Norway that was located in what was Os, Hordaland ...

. In November 1943 he was transferred to Sachsenhausen concentration camp, where he remained until the camp was liberated. He was transported back to Norway with the White Buses. After the war he took the

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degree in 1950 and the cand.philol. degree in 1951. Falch served as the director of the

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from 1951 to 1957, and was then an editor and district executive in the

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until 1990. He served as a member of

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city council for the

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. He was decorated with the Defence Medal 1940–1945 and was a Knight of the Order of the Falcon. He was also a Rotary member since the 1950s, and edited their Nordic magazine ''

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''. He died in December 2013.

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1920 births 2013 deaths People from Kvinnherad Mass media people from Bergen Ulven concentration camp survivors Sachsenhausen concentration camp survivors NRK people Politicians from Bergen Conservative Party (Norway) politicians Norwegian magazine editors Knights of the Order of the Falcon {{Norway-bio-stub