Finn Lützow-Holm

Finn Trond Lützow-Holm (28 May 1890 – 4 June 1950) was a Norwegian military officer, aviation pioneer and polar explorer.

He was born in Nesseby Municipality as a son of priest and politician Ole Arntzen Lützow-Holm (1853–1936) and Anne Marie Riddervold Jensen (1855–1934).

[1] His mother was a daughter of Peter Andreas Jensen and granddaughter of Hans Riddervold.

[3] Finn Lützow-Holm took part in the air surveyance of the Bouvet Island and of the Queen Maud Land in 1929 and 1931, together with Hjalmar Riiser-Larsen.

He was commander of the Royal Norwegian Navy Air Service from 1938.

Lützow-Holm (no. 2 from the left) in Scotland in 1943