Knut Fixdal (16 September 1887 – 22 July 1969) was a Norwegian civil servant born in

Vestnes Vestnes is a municipality in Møre og Romsdal county, Norway. Vestnes is part of the traditional district of Romsdal. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Vestnes. Other villages in the municipality include Vikebu ...

. He worked as road engineer in

Finnmark Finnmark (; se, Finnmárku ; fkv, Finmarku; fi, Ruija ; russian: Финнмарк) was a county in the northern part of Norway, and it is scheduled to become a county again in 2024. On 1 January 2020, Finnmark was merged with the neighbouri ...

from 1920, and in

Telemark Telemark is a traditional region, a former county, and a current electoral district in southern Norway. In 2020, Telemark merged with the former county of Vestfold to form the county of Vestfold og Telemark. Telemark borders the traditional ...

from 1937. His brother

Nils Fixdal Nils Fixdal (20 November 1889 – 11 October 1972) was a Norwegian athlete who specialized in long jump and triple jump. He represented Haugesund IL. He was the brother of Knut Fixdal. At the 1912 Summer Olympics he finished thirteenth in the lon ...

was an athlete. Fixdal was incarcerated at the

Grini concentration camp '', '' no, Grini fangeleir'', location=Bærum, Viken, Norway, location map=Viken#Norway, built by=Norway, original use=Constructed as a women's prison, operated by=Nazi Germany, notable inmates= List of Grini prisoners, liberated by=Harry Söderma ...

during the

Second World War World War II or the Second World War, often abbreviated as WWII or WW2, was a world war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. It involved the vast majority of the world's countries—including all of the great powers—forming two opposin ...

from June 1942 to May 1945, and took over as acting county manager of Telemark after the war from 8 May to 1 September 1945. He served as road manager from 1949 to 1957.

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1887 births 1969 deaths People from Vestnes 20th-century Norwegian civil servants Grini concentration camp survivors {{Norway-gov-bio-stub