Gudmund Seland (11 November 1907 – 1996) was a Norwegian resistance member and newspaper editor. Seland was born in

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. He worked as a book printer before the Second World War, but together with his brother Johannes Seland he was involved in the

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during the

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. Seland was arrested on 4 April 1944, and was held at Gestapo Headquarters in

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(in what had been the State Archive building). From 5 August 1944 until

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(8 May 1945) Seland was imprisoned in

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. After the war he became deputy mayor of

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, serving as mayor from 1952 to 1956. He was an editor for the newspaper ''

Agder Agder is a county (''fylke'') and traditional region in the southern part of Norway. The county was established on 1 January 2020, when the old Vest-Agder and Aust-Agder counties were merged. Since the early 1900s, the term Sørlandet ("south ...

'' from 1954. He stepped down and sold the newspaper in 1970.Jensen, 1997: pp. 203–205 Seland also wrote books on local history. He died in 1996.

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;Bibliography * * 1907 births 1996 deaths People from Flekkefjord Norwegian resistance members Grini concentration camp survivors Norwegian newspaper editors Mayors of places in Vest-Agder 20th-century Norwegian writers {{Norway-writer-stub