Sven Arntzen

He was also the acting director general of the Norwegian Prosecuting Authority from 1945 to 1946, and played an important role in the legal purge in Norway after World War II.

He also worked with law candidates at the University of Oslo, and was a prominent member of the Norwegian Bar Association.

The authorities not being aware of his association with Milorg and Hjemmefrontens Ledelse, he was then released from prison, only to continue his resistance work.

He helped plan the situation which would follow the German defeat in World War II.

[1] In 1961 he stood forward as a member of Landsforbundet for folkeavstemning, a lobby organization which worked to include the institution of referendums in the Norwegian Constitution.

[5][6] He died on 27 November 1976 at the age of 79 of heart failure in Aix-en-Provence, and was buried at Vestre gravlund.