The Norwegian Ministry of Labour and Sports ( no, Arbeidstjeneste- og idrettsdepartementet) was a government ministry during the

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. The ministry was set up on 25 September 1940 by ''

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Josef Terboven Josef Terboven (23 May 1898 – 8 May 1945) was a Nazi Party official and politician who was the long-serving ''Gauleiter'' of Gau Essen and the ''Reichskommissar'' for Norway during the German occupation. Early life Terboven was born in Es ...

as a consequence of the

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during World War II. The ministry was headed by Axel Heiberg Stang throughout the occupation. It was closed the same day as the occupation ended, on 8 May 1945.

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