Frederik Prytz

===Russia and the Revolution=== Frederik Prytz became a close friend of Vidkun Quisling then military attaché during his stay in Russia after the Russian Revolution in 1917, when they were both stationed at the Norwegian legation in Petrograd.

Prytz was trade attaché at the legation and became chargé d'affaires in Petrograd when the Norwegian envoy returned home.After the revolution, foreign diplomats were not safe and, among other things, a British military attache was killed.

[2] Prytz var Quislings overordnete ved legasjonen som ble nedlagt i December 1918.

After he settled in Russia, Prytz was annually in Norway and kept in touch with the general staff where Quisling was an aspirant.

Onega Wood was in 1928 (toward the end of the NEP period) accused of illegal money transactions and Prytz was interrogated and released.

In the 1920s he moved back to Norway for good, continued as a businessman and bought Storfosen estate in Trøndelag.

While Prytz and Quisling were in Petrograd together they exchanged ideas about the Nordic race, about the colonization of Russia and about fighting the Bolsheviks.

[5] Prytz hadde stor innflytelse på Quisling[6] blant annet med sine raseteorier.

[10][11] Hans Fredrik Dahl writes that Lied and Quisling "got on well with each other" and they agreed that the Bolshevik leaders were skilled politicians.

This was an independent department outside the Farmers' Party and included people who were skeptical of the political system in Norway.

[15] Nordisk Folkereisning came about through a group that met at Prytz's home.Among these were Johan Throne Holst and Herman Harris Aall.

[7][19] During World War II, Frederik Prytz was county in Sør-Trøndelag and head of the Ministry of Finance from 1942 to 1944.

In 1943, Prytz Statistics Central Agency initiated the collection of information on the costs of the war for Norway.

Prytz received on his deathbed a revised edition of the Great Cross of St. Order of Olav from Quisling personally.