Trygve Dehli Laurantzon (20 March 1902 – 21 May 1975) was a Norwegian agronomist and newspaper editor. He was born in

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as a son of Major General Jacob Ager Laurantzon (1878–1965) and Bergljot Dehli (1878–1968). On the maternal side he was a grandson of jurist and organizational leader Ole Dehli, and a nephew of

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. In 1928 he married Johanne Sandberg (1903–1985), a daughter of farmer, officer and politician Ole Rømer Aagaard Sandberg (1865–1925). As such he was a brother-in-law of Ole Rømer Aagaard Sandberg, farmer and MP from Furnes. Laurantzon died in May 1975 in

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. During the

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he edited the magazine ''Norsk Jord'' from 1941 to 1945. During the last phase of the Second World War he edited the newspaper ''

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'' for two and a half months, and headed the collaborationist

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's Ministry of Agriculture for a short period from April to May 1945. In the

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he was convicted of treason and sentenced to fifteen years of forced labor, only to be released in 1950.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Dehli Laurantzon, Trygve 1902 births 1975 deaths Scientists from Oslo Norwegian agronomists Norwegian magazine editors Norwegian newspaper editors Ministers of Agriculture and Food of Norway Members of Nasjonal Samling People convicted of treason for Nazi Germany against Norway 20th-century Norwegian writers