“Leif O. Foss”的意思、由来-开放百科全书

Leif Olav Foss (28 August 1899 – 1982) was a Norwegian trade unionist and politician for the Communist Party.

He spent his early working career at sea, and from 1919 as a docks worker at Akers Mekaniske Verksted. He was organized, first through the Norsk matros- og fyrbøterunion, then through the Union of Iron and Metalworkers, chairing the sub-union Dokkarbeidernes forening from 1922 to 1925. He was a supervisory council member in Oslo faglige samorg from 1923 to 1930, and a national board member of the Union of Iron and Metalworkers from 1925 to 1929.^[1]

He joined the Norwegian Labour Party in 1920, and then the Communist Party. He became party secretary for trade affairs, and was a delegate at the Red International of Labour Unions Congress in 1930. Here he was elected to the RILU executive committee, and moved to Moscow. He returned to Norway after a few years.^[1]

During the occupation of Norway by Nazi Germany, he was arrested two times for resistance. The first time he was imprisoned in Møllergata 19 from 15 August to 2 September 1940. On 12 September 1941 he was arrested for the second time, after the milk strike. He was incarcerated in Grini concentration camp until 3 April 1942, when he was sent to Sachsenhausen concentration camp. He was sent further to many camps, first Lichterfelde, then Hamburg-Fuhlsbüttel, Neuengamme, Hamburg-Fühlsbuttel again, Königswartha, Bautzen, Leipzig and Eisenach. He was freed at the war's end.^[2] After the war, from 1945 to 1949 he was the secretary in the Union of Iron and Metalworkers.^[1]

References

1. ^¹²{{cite book|last=Lorenz|first=Einhart|authorlink=Einhart Lorenz|title=Det er ingen sak å få partiet lite. NKP 1923–1931|year=1983|publisher=Pax|location=Oslo|language=Norwegian|isbn=82-530-1255-1|page=290}}
2. ^{{cite book|editor=Ottosen, Kristian|title=Nordmenn i fangenskap 1940–1945|edition=2nd|year=2004|publisher=Universitetsforlaget|location=Oslo|language=Norwegian|isbn=82-15-00288-9|page=221}}