Norway's Governments 1814 -

Norway's Governments 1940-1945

  • Johan Nygaardsvold's Government

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    Labour Party (A), from 1940 also Farmers’ Party (B), Conservative Party (H) and Liberal Party (V), from 1941 also Home Front (Hf)

  • Secretaries General in Oslo 1945

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    At the German capitulation in Norway on 8 May 1945, Vidkun Quisling's illegal government was dissolved. In agreement with the resistance movement Home Front, Johan Nygaardsvold's Government in London had appointed eight chief officers to lead the ministries in Oslo until a government delegation would arrive from London.

  • Illegal Vidkun Quisling government in Oslo 1940

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    After Nazi Germany’s attack on Norway on 9 April 1940 forced King Haakon VII and Johan Nygaardsvold’s Government to leave Oslo with civil servants from government offices, the leader of the Norwegian Nazi party Nasjonal Samling (NS), Vidkun Quisling, that evening appointed an illegal government.

  • Administrative Council in Oslo 1940

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    15 April 1940–25 September 1940

  • Illegal ministers in Oslo 1940-1942

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    On 25 September 1940, Nazi Germany’s reichskommissar in Norway, Josef Terboven, appointed 13 illegal acting ministers to lead the ministries in Oslo, with restricted authority and without a leading minister.

  • Illegal Vidkun Quisling government in Oslo 1942-1945

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    After it was agreed between Nazi-German occupation authorities and the Norwegian Nazi party Nasjonal Samling (NS) that parts of the responsibility for the civil administration of Norway should be transferred to a government headed by NS leader Vidkun Quisling, the illegal ministers handed in their resignations on 30 January 1942.

  • Government Delegation in Oslo 1945

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    At the German capitulation in Norway on 8 May 1945, Vidkun Quisling's illegal government was dissolved. In agreement with the resistance movement Home Front, Johan Nygaardsvold's Government in London had appointed eight chief officers to lead the ministries in Oslo until a government delegation would arrive from London.