How to Pronounce Carl Ferdinand Gjerdrum (barrister)
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Apr 09, 1898 Died on 09 Feb 1945 (aged 46)
Norwegian resistance member
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About Carl Ferdinand Gjerdrum Barrister
- Carl Ferdinand Gjerdrum (9 April 1898 – 9 February 1945) was a Norwegian jurist and resistance member. He was born in Kristiania as a son of Albert Gjerdrum and Olivia Kloumann.
- He was a grandson of Carl Ferdinand Gjerdrum, grandnephew of Jørgen and Otto Gjerdrum and great-grandson of Ole Gjerdrum.
- In 1926 in Lillehammer he married Aase Filseth, of Danish descent, a sister of Tyge and Kaare Filseth. By occupation Carl Ferdinand Gjerdrum was a barrister, a lawyer with access to Supreme Court cases, like his father.
- The law firm was named A.
- Gjerdrum og C.
- F.
- Gjerdrum, and had its offices in the Oslo's main street Karl Johans gate.During the occupation of Norway by Nazi Germany he was involved in a broad spectrum of work for the Norwegian resistance movement.
- He supplied resistance members with faux passports and helped them cross the border to neutral Sweden, he was involved in intelligence gathering, in the illegal press and with unveiling Norwegian denouncers.
- When the Nazi police leader Karl Marthinsen was assassinated by the Norwegian resistance on 8 February 1945, Gjerdrum was arrested together with thirty-three others, including Kaare Sundby, Haakon Sæthre and Jon Vislie, as a reprisal.
- At Akershus Fortress Gjerdrum was executed by gunshot on 9 February.
