Per Askim (24 February 1881 – 8 March 1963) was a Norwegian naval officer who was in command of the two coastal defence ships defending Narvik during the German invasion of Norway on 9 April 1940.
[1] On 9 April 1940 Askim's ship Norge was hit by two torpedoes during a confrontation with the German destroyer Bernd von Arnim, at the Narvik Harbour.
[4] From 1943 he served as head of the Planning section at the Norwegian High Command in London.
[1] On 8 May 1945 he was the only Norwegian member of the Allied Surrender Commission at Lillehammer, when the German general Franz Böhme signed the surrender conditions on behalf of the German troops in Norway.
[1][5] From May to December 1945 Askim headed the Norwegian naval command Marinekommando Øst.