Kristian Fougner, (21 April 1919 – 30 August 2012) was a Norwegian engineer and resistance member.
Fougner was born 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 ...
to Bjørn Fougner and Ragnhild Klaveness. He graduated from the
Norwegian Institute of Technology
The Norwegian Institute of Technology (Norwegian: ''Norges tekniske høgskole'', NTH) was a science institute in Trondheim, Norway. It was established in 1910, and existed as an independent technical university for 58 years, after which it was m ...
in 1946.
While a student in
Trondheim during the
German occupation of Norway, Fougner took part in
resistance activities for the intelligence organization
XU, and for the British
Secret Intelligence Service
The Secret Intelligence Service (SIS), commonly known as MI6 ( Military Intelligence, Section 6), is the foreign intelligence service of the United Kingdom, tasked mainly with the covert overseas collection and analysis of human intelligenc ...
(SIS).
He operated the SIS wireless station ''Leporis'' from 1942 to 1943.
For his war contributions, he was decorated with the Norwegian
War Cross with Sword, and the British
Distinguished Service Cross The Distinguished Service Cross (D.S.C.) is a military decoration for courage. Different versions exist for different countries.
*Distinguished Service Cross (Australia)
*Distinguished Service Cross (United Kingdom)
*Distinguished Service Cross (U ...
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References
1919 births
2012 deaths
People from Halden
Norwegian resistance members
XU
Norwegian Army Air Service personnel of World War II
Norwegian Institute of Technology alumni
Norwegian engineers
Recipients of the War Cross with Sword (Norway)
Recipients of the Distinguished Service Cross (United Kingdom)
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