Johannes Stubberud (27 February 1891 – 4 March 1942) was a Norwegian newspaper editor who was imprisoned and killed during the

occupation of Norway by Nazi Germany The occupation of Norway by Nazi Germany during the Second World War began on 9 April 1940 after Operation Weserübung. Conventional armed resistance to the German invasion ended on 10 June 1940, and Nazi Germany controlled Norway until the ...

. He was born in

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as the son of Hans Petter Stubberud and his wife Klara, née Johannesen. He married Solveig Karoline Treider in 1916, and had two children. The family settled in

Halden Halden (), between 1665 and 1928 known as Fredrikshald, is both a town and a municipality in Viken county, Norway. The municipality borders Sarpsborg to the northwest, Rakkestad to the north and Aremark to the east, as well as the Swedish muni ...

. Stubberud was a saddle maker by education, but worked in newspapers. He was acting editor of '' Østerdalens Arbeiderblad'' from early 1922 to early 1923. He was the editor-in-chief of '' Haldens Arbeiderblad'' at the outbreak of

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. A few months into the

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, the newspaper was closed by the Nazi authorities. Stubberud, having also assisted people who fled the country across the Swedish border, was arrested in April 1941 due to his opposition to the Nazi press policy. He was imprisoned at

Møllergata 19 Møllergata 19 is an address in Oslo, Norway where the city's main police station and jail was located. The address gained notoriety during the German occupation from 1940 to 1945, when the Nazi security police kept its headquarters here. This is ...

and

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before being sent to Germany in September 1941. He died at

Sachsenhausen Sachsenhausen () or Sachsenhausen-Oranienburg was a German Nazi concentration camp in Oranienburg, Germany, used from 1936 until April 1945, shortly before the defeat of Nazi Germany in May later that year. It mainly held political prisoners ...

in March 1942.

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1891 births 1942 deaths Norwegian newspaper editors Norwegian resistance members People who died in Sachsenhausen concentration camp Norwegian civilians killed in World War II People from Halden People from Østre Toten Resistance members who died in Nazi concentration camps {{Norway-journalist-stub