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Jan 24, 1904 Herdla, Hordaland, Norway Died on 30 May 1944 (aged 40)
Norwegian sailor and communist activist
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About Martin Rasmussen Hjelmen
- Martin Rasmussen Hjelmen (24 January 1904 – 30 May 1944) was a Norwegian sailor and communist activist. He was from Øygarden, born in Herdla.
- He went to work at sea from the age of fifteen, and was based in Australia in the 1920s.
- Upon returning to Norway he settled in Ski.He chaired the Norwegian branch of the Wollweber League from 1936 to 1938.
- He was arrested in Sweden in February 1940, and later handed over to the Gestapo.
- He was sentenced to death and executed in Brandenburg in May 1944.He was the first leader of the Osvald Group, until he in 1938 transferred to Saborg in Bergen.
