Olaf Kullmann
Olaf Bryn Kullmann (2 July 1892 – 9 July 1942) was a Norwegian naval officer and peace activist.
Early life and career
He was born in
Political turnaround
Kullmann eventually turned against the ideas of the existing military. He had been an adviser for the
The latter half of the 1930s started with the
Incarceration and death
The German occupiers demanded his signature on a declaration that he would forever cease his pacifist agitation; Kullmann refused and was arrested in June 1941.
Kullmann was a granduncle of later Norwegian Nobel Committee member Kaci Kullmann Five.[1]
Selected works
- Fred eller krig for Norden? (1935)
- Europe Awake (1936)
- Hjelp din bror, etioperen (1938)
- Folkereisning mot krig (1939)
- Lovsangen (1940)
References
- ^ a b c d e Ørnhøi, Stein. "Olaf Kullmann". In Helle, Knut (ed.). Norsk biografisk leksikon (in Norwegian). Oslo: Kunnskapsforlaget. Retrieved 20 September 2010.
- ^ Ørvik, Nils (1960). Solidaritet eller nøytralitet?. Volume one of Sikkerhetspolitikken 1920–1939 (in Norwegian). Oslo: J. G. Tanum. p. 130.
- ISBN 82-15-00288-9.
Other sources
- ISBN 978-0-7735-0507-0
- Ottosen, Kristian (1990) Liv og død : historien om Sachsenhausen-fangene (Oslo: Aschehoug) ISBN 82-03-16484-6