Gulbrand Oscar Johan Lunde was a Norwegian chemist and politician of the Nasjonal Samling party who became a minister in the collaborationist government of Vidkun Quisling during World War II. His 1942 death was deemed accidental, although a 2012 biography of Lunde concluded that he was assassinated because his cultural views clashed with those of the government of Nazi Germany.
TheStatsakten ceremony at Akershus Castle in Oslo, Norway, on 1 February 1942, in which Reichskommissar Josef Terboven installed Vidkun Quisling (center) as "Minister President" of Norway. Lunde sits second to the left from Quisling.
Lunde stands at left for a ceremony during the Nasjonal Samling′s Eighth Party Congress, held in Olso on 26–27 September 1942. Quisling is at center.
Quisling welcomes Terboven to Trinity Church (Norwegian: Trefoldighetskirken) in Oslo for Lunde's grand state funeral on 1 November 1942.
Nasjonal Samling was a Norwegian far-right political party active from 1933 to 1945. It was the only legal party of Norway from 1942 to 1945. It was founded by former minister of defence Vidkun Quisling and a group of supporters such as Johan Bernhard Hjort – who led the party's paramilitary wing (Hirden) for a short time before leaving the party in 1937 after various internal conflicts. The party celebrated its founding on 17 May, Norway's national holiday, but was founded on 13 May 1933. Nasjonal Samling was made illegal and disbanded at the end of World War II, on 8 May 1945.
Vidkun Quisling on the podium during a party meeting in the 1930s.
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