Josef Terboven
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Josef Antonius Heinrich Terboven was a German Nazi Party official and politician who was the long-serving Gauleiter of Gau Essen and the Reichskommissar for Norway during the German occupation.
Terboven in 1942
Terboven (seated second from right) with Vidkun Quisling (left), Heinrich Himmler (second from left), and Nikolaus von Falkenhorst (right).
Quisling regime
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The Quisling regime or Quisling government was the collaborationist puppet government led by Vidkun Quisling in German-occupied Norway during the Second World War. The official name of the regime from
Josef Terboven
…in 1945, even after he had permitted the formation of a Norwegian puppet regime on 1 February 1942 under Quisling as minister-president, the so-called Quisling government. Terboven also did not have authority over the 400,000 regular German Army forces that were stationed in Norway which were under the command of…
The establishment of Quisling's national government was proclaimed at Akershus Fortress. On the left side of the hall are Terboven (third from left) and several German officers, on the right Quisling (third from right) and several of his ministers
Stamp of the State service
Quisling's former office at the Royal Palace, in June 1945