Sigrid Stray (née Kluge; 29 May 1893 – 3 July 1978) was a Norwegian barrister and proponent for women's rights.
Personal life
She was born in
Sandnes
Sandnes () is a city and municipality in Rogaland, Norway. It lies immediately south of Stavanger, the 4th largest municipality in Norway, and together the Stavanger/Sandnes area is the third-largest urban area in Norway. The urban city of Sand ...
as a daughter of merchant Reier Kluge (1859–1921) and Anna Gausel (1863–1939). In March 1921 she married lawyer and politician
Christian Stray
Christian Stray (14 January 1894 – 31 July 1981) was a Norway, Norwegian lawyer and politician for the Liberal Party of Norway, Liberal Party.
He was born in Kristiansand, Christianssand as a son of timber merchant and shipowner Thorkild Marthi ...
, settling in
Arendal
Arendal () is a List of municipalities of Norway, municipality in Agder counties of Norway, county in southeastern Norway. Arendal belongs to the Districts of Norway, region of Southern Norway, Sørlandet. The administrative centre of the munici ...
. They were parents of
Signe and
Anne Lise Stray and in-laws of
Rolv Ryssdal.
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Career
Stray became Norway's second female barrister (after Elise Sem), and was a partner in a law firm with her husband. She also chaired the Norwegian National Women's Council from 1938, was ousted by the Nazi authorities in 1941 following the protest of the 43 and also imprisoned in Arkivet in 1944, but returned as chair from 1945 to 1946.[
After a period as acting presiding judge in 1945–46, she conducted the defense for her pre-war client ]Knut Hamsun
Knut Hamsun (4 August 1859 – 19 February 1952) was a Norwegian writer who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1920 Nobel Prize in Literature, 1920. Hamsun's work spans more than 70 years and shows variation with regard to conscio ...
during the legal purge after World War II. She served as the first female chancellor of the Order of St. Olav
The Royal Norwegian Order of Saint Olav (; or ''Sanct Olafs Orden'', the old Norwegian name) is a Norwegian order of chivalry instituted by King Oscar I on 21 August 1847. It is named after King Olav II, known to posterity as St. Olav.
Just be ...
, from 1956 to 1967.
See also
* List of Arkivet prisoners
References
Norwegian women's rights activists
20th-century Norwegian judges
1893 births
1978 deaths
Norwegian feminists
Norwegian resistance members
Nazi concentration camp survivors
Personnel of the legal purge in Norway
Norwegian women judges
People from Sandnes
People from Arendal
20th-century Norwegian politicians
20th-century Norwegian women politicians
Stray family
20th-century women lawyers
20th-century women judges
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