Hans Cappelen (18 December 1903 – 21 October 1979 ) was a Norwegian jurist, businessperson and resistance fighter. He was born at

Kviteseid Kviteseid is a municipality in Telemark in the county of Vestfold og Telemark in Norway. It is part of the traditional region of Upper Telemark and Vest-Telemark. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Kviteseid. The parish ...

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, Norway. He was a son of Supreme Court Attorney Didrik Cappelen (1873–1941) and Antoinette Therese von der Lippe (1876–1934). He was a brother of the jurist and politician

Didrik Cappelen Didrik Cappelen (8 October 1900 – 27 August 1970) was a Norwegian jurist and politician. He was born at Kviteseid in Telemark, Norway. He was a son of Supreme Court Attorney Didrik Cappelen (1873-1941) and Antoinette Therese von der Lippe ...

and the actress and singer Linge Langård. He held a degree in law and worked in senior positions in the

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and was a member of the board of Norsk AS Philips. Under the

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during

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, he was arrested and sent to prison. He published the memoir ''Vi ga oss ikke'' (Nasjonalforlaget, 1945) and was a Norwegian witness in the

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in 1946. He was decorated Knight, First Class of the Order of St. Olav in 1970.

References

External links

Portrait of Hans Cappelen
(Oslo Museum) * Hans Cappelen: ''Vi ga oss ikke - En Nacht und Nebelfange forteller'', Oslo 1945

* Yale Law School: ''The Avalon Project'', "Nuremberg Trial Proceedings", Vol.

* SWR2 Stand 22.9.2016: ''Die Nürnberger Prozesse in Originalaufnahmen'', "Nürnberg: Hans Cappelen berichtet über die Gestapo-Folter"

1903 births People from Kviteseid Norwegian jurists 20th-century Norwegian businesspeople Norwegian resistance members Norwegian torture victims Norwegian people imprisoned abroad Natzweiler-Struthof concentration camp survivors Norwegian World War II memoirists Hans 1979 deaths {{Norway-business-bio-stub