Torgils Lovra (17 November 1909 – 11 January 1998) was a Norwegian editor. He was born in

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as a son of farmers. He

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his secondary education at

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in 1933. During the

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, he joined the Fascist party

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. In November 1941 he was installed as editor-in-chief of the newspaper ''

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''. In 1944 he briefly edited the magazine ''I fritiden'', an organ for the welfare organization Sol i Arbeid. He also wrote poetry. In 1944 he was enlisted as a German agent by Rolf Arthur Jensen, a Norwegian journalist working for ''Referat III F'' of the

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. Lovra received the agent name Kristoffer and sent to Sweden. He was to infiltrate Norwegian resistance groups and to report to the

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. Little came from his efforts, according to historian

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. In 1961 he started the apolitical newspaper ''Nesodden Budstikke'', a

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for

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. It went defunct after four issues. He died in January 1998.Death announcement, ''Stavanger Aftenblad'' 17 January 1998, p. 51

References

1909 births 1998 deaths Journalists from Oslo Members of Nasjonal Samling Norwegian magazine editors Norwegian newspaper editors Norwegian expatriates in Sweden 20th-century Norwegian writers {{Norway-bio-stub