Ferdinand Schjelderup

Ferdinand Schjelderup (8 March 1886 – 30 July 1955) was a Norwegian mountaineer, Supreme Court Justice and resistance member during the German occupation of Norway.

[2] He was the brother of Gunnar Schjelderup,[1] and through his aunt Berte, Ferdinand was a nephew of Bredo Henrik von Munthe af Morgenstierne.

[4] The new Nazi authorities found him to be the most objectionable among the Supreme Court Justices, as Schjelderup at one occasion had insulted a picture of Vidkun Quisling.

[5] As the Supreme Court Justices collectively laid down their posts in December 1940,[6] Schjelderup emerged as one of the most prominent members of the Norwegian civil resistance.

However, the letter helped clear mutual misunderstandings about command lines in Kretsen and Milorg, which in turn spurred the cooperation between the two organisations, initiated in 1943 and known as Hjemmefrontens Ledelse.

In the summer of 1910 he and his companions conducted first ascendancies of several mountains of Nordland county: Stedtinden, Svolværgjeita, Store Rørhopstinden, Navern, Klokketind and Festhæltind, as chronicled in an article in the book Norsk Fjeldsport 1914.