Olaf Aarvold

Olaf Aarvold (3 February 1899, Gjerpen - 3 August 1991) was a Norwegian priest and politician for the Liberal Party.

He graduated from upper secondary school in 1922, and worked as a teacher in Larvik from 1923 to 1925.

Having been imprisoned by the German occupants from 1943 to 1945, first in Espeland concentration camp from September 1943 to January 1944 and then Grini concentration camp until the war's end, he moved on to become chaplain in Bergen in 1946.

[1][2] He served as a deputy representative to the Parliament of Norway from Bergen during the terms 1950–1953, 1954–1957, and 1958–1961.

[3] On the local level he was a member of the executive committee of Eidanger municipal council from 1960 to 1963.