Gudmund Seland
Norwegian newspaper editor and mayor
Intro | Norwegian newspaper editor and mayor | |
Places | Norway | |
was | Editor Mayor | |
Work field | Journalism Politics | |
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Birth | 11 November 1907 | |
Death | 1 January 1996 (aged 88 years) |
Gudmund Seland (11 November 1907 – 1996) was a Norwegian resistance member and newspaper editor.
He was born in Flekkefjord. He worked as a book printer before the Second World War, but together with his brother Johannes Seland he was involved in the resistance movement during the occupation of Norway by Nazi Germany. He was arrested on 4 April 1944, and imprisoned in Kristiansand before sitting in Grini concentration camp from 5 August 1944 to 8 May 1945.
After the war he became deputy mayor of Nes, serving as mayor from 1952 to 1956. He was an editor for the newspaper Agder from 1954. Seland also wrote books on local history. He backed down and sold the newspaper in 1970. He died in 1996.