Reidar Kvammen (23 July 1914 – 27 October 1998) was a Norwegian

footballer A football player or footballer is a sportsperson who plays one of the different types of football. The main types of football are association football, American football, Canadian football, Australian rules football, Gaelic football, rugby ...

. Kvammen was an inside-forward who played his entire career for

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, and is regarded as one of Norway's greatest footballers of all time. Kvammen was the first Norwegian footballer to reach 50 caps. Overall, he played 51 internationals and scored 17 goals for

Norway Norway, officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic country in Northern Europe, the mainland territory of which comprises the western and northernmost portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula. The remote Arctic island of Jan Mayen and t ...

. Kvammen was a prominent member of the Norwegian bronze-medal winning team in the 1936 Olympics, and also played in the

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two years later. At club level, he scored 202 goals, which to this date is still a

club record. After his career as player, Kvammen had spells as coach at

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and

Personal life

Kvammen was born in

Stavanger Stavanger (, , American English, US usually , ) is a city and municipalities of Norway, municipality in Norway. It is the fourth largest city and third largest metropolitan area in Norway (through conurbation with neighboring Sandnes) and the a ...

, the son of shoemaker Rasmus Andreas Kvammen and Janna Kvammen, and worked as a police officer. He married Anna Martea Steen in 1942. During the

German occupation of Norway The occupation of Norway by Nazi Germany during the Second World War began on 9 April 1940 after Operation Weserübung. Conventional armed resistance to the German invasion ended on 10 June 1940, and Nazi Germany controlled Norway until the ...

Kvammen was sent to a concentration camp in German-occupied Poland. He was imprisoned in August 1943 and held in prison in Stavanger, then in

Grini concentration camp '', '' no, Grini fangeleir'', location=Bærum, Viken, Norway, location map=Viken#Norway, built by=Norway, original use=Constructed as a women's prison, operated by=Nazi Germany, notable inmates= List of Grini prisoners, liberated by=Harry Söderma ...

from August to December 1943, then in

Stutthof concentration camp Stutthof was a Nazi concentration camp established by Nazi Germany in a secluded, marshy, and wooded area near the village of Stutthof (now Sztutowo) 34 km (21 mi) east of the city of Danzig (Gdańsk) in the territory of the German-a ...

until the end of the war. His autobiography, ''50 ganger på Norges landslag'', was issued in 1949.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Kvammen, Reidar 1914 births 1998 deaths Sportspeople from Stavanger Norwegian footballers Norway international footballers Viking FK players Footballers at the 1936 Summer Olympics Olympic footballers of Norway Olympic bronze medalists for Norway 1938 FIFA World Cup players Norwegian football managers Viking FK managers Molde FK managers Bryne FK managers Olympic medalists in football Grini concentration camp survivors Stutthof concentration camp survivors Norwegian autobiographers Medalists at the 1936 Summer Olympics Association football forwards