Arne Gauslaa

Arne Gauslaa (8 February 1913 – 30 October 1942) was a Norwegian communist, newspaper editor and resistance member.

[1] His father Olav Gauslaa was a member of Solum municipal council from 1910 to 1927 and again from 1931, and had joined the Communist Party in 1923.

[2] Arne Gauslaa married Audhild Olsen from Skien in 1932, and had one foster child.

The first time he was sentenced to prison for participating in the Skirmish of Menstad, then for making the small newspaper Den røde elev at his school.

[1] Eventually, together with Ottar Lie he led the party's organizational centre which had contact with communist resistance members who hid in the mountains.