Rolv Enge
Rolv Øistein Enge (29 June 1921 – 5 April 2014) was a Norwegian resistance member and architect.
World War II
During the
In addition to Røed and Enge, the participants were Kjell Werenskiold, Kjell Moursund and Kåre Thoresen. They brought 8 kilograms (18 lb) of plastic explosives, but three of the five were to serve as guards, scattered along the route the saboteurs took to Bygdøy School.[3] Enge was the guard stationed closest to the gasoline tanks, whereas Røed and Thoresen placed the explosives. When they retreated, they had 25 minutes before detonation. It turned out that the intelligence was slightly wrong in that 3,000 litres were stored here; this had in fact been increased to 6,000.[4]
Enge also participated in the failed mission against gasoline tanks at Vestheim School on 14 September 1944. No sabotage damage was dealt, and Aks 13000 nearly lost one saboteur—the first injury sustained during the squad's short history—but the injured saboteur, Reidar Smith, was treated by physician Per Giertsen. Enge and Røed later returned, hurled six one-kilo loads of plastic over the fence at Vestheim School and managed to blow up seventeen tanks of gasoline.[5]
In October 1944, Aks 13000 prepared for a mission towards a gasoline depot in
He was decorated with the
Post-war life
Enge, who had taken the examen artium in 1942 before joining the resistance movement, took higher education in the United States after the war. He did so on a scholarship from Leif Tronstad's heritage fund. He took the bachelor of architecture degree at the University of Pennsylvania and the master of architecture degree at the University of Southern California. He was a member of the fraternities Tau Sigma Delta and Alpha Rho Chi. After taking his education he worked at Pennsylvania State University as assisting professor for some time, and also worked in various architect's offices in the US and Norway. In 1968 he was hired in the Norwegian Defence Estates Agency, and he retired in 1988. From 1974 to 1976 he worked in Zambia for Norconsult.[8]
He has resided at Jar in his later life,[9] but later moved to Hosle.[8] He died in April 2014.[10]
References
- ISBN 978-82-458-0839-1.
- ^ Øyen, ed, 2007: p. 96
- ^ a b Øyen, ed, 2007: pp. 99–101
- ^ Øyen, ed, 2007: pp. 104–106
- ^ Øyen, ed, 2007: pp. 107–115
- ^ Øyen, ed, 2007: pp. 119–121
- ^ Øyen, ed, 2007: pp. 123–125
- ^ a b c "Rolv Enge 80 år 29. juni" (in Norwegian). Norwegian News Agency. 8 June 2001.
- ^ "Rolv Enge 70 år 29. juni" (in Norwegian). Norwegian News Agency. 7 June 1991.
- ^ Death announcement, Budstikka 10 April 2014, p. 58