Henrik Jørgen Schibsted Huitfeldt (8 January 1907 – 1979) was a Norwegian newspaper editor.

Personal life

He was born in

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as a son of physician Hans L. C. Huitfeldt (1876–1969) and Gudrun Schibsted (1881–1966). He was a paternal grandson of Henrik Jørgen Huitfeldt-Kaas and maternal grandson of Amandus Schibsted. In 1935 he married

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, but the marriage was dissolved. In 1949 he married Anita Wimmer.

Career

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his secondary education in 1926 and took economics at

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in 1929. He was hired in ''

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'' in 1930. Here he was promoted to subeditor in 1935 and editor-in-chief in 1945. He retired in 1973. During the occupation of Norway by Nazi Germany, Huitfeldt was imprisoned by the Nazi authorities and held in Grini concentration camp from 13 January to 24 December 1942. He was decorated as an Officer of the

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. He died in 1979.

References

1907 births 1979 deaths Writers from Oslo Grini concentration camp survivors Norwegian newspaper editors Aftenposten editors Officers of the Order of Orange-Nassau 20th-century Norwegian writers {{Norway-journalist-stub