Ole Wehus

Ole Wehus
Born	(1909-06-25)25 June 1909 Kristiansand, Norway
Died	10 March 1947(1947-03-10) (aged 37) Akershus Fortress, Oslo, Norway
Cause of death	Execution by firing squad
Criminal status	Executed
Conviction(s)	Treason
Criminal penalty	Death
Military career
Allegiance	Nazi Germany
Years of service	1942–1945
Rank	Norwegian STAPO (police) officer/Gestapo agent
Unit	STAPO 1942–1945
Battles / wars	World War II

Ole Wehus (25 June 1909 – 10 March 1947) was a Norwegian police official and member of the fascist party Nasjonal Samling who was sentenced to death and executed in 1947.

Life and career

Wehus was born in Kristiansand on 25 June 1909. During the occupation of Norway by Nazi Germany he was appointed as a police officer for the Statspolitiet (State Police, STAPO) from the spring of 1942 until the end of the war. He served most of the period in Kristiansand, where he cooperated with the Gestapo at their local headquarters, known as Arkivet.

In the legal purge after the war, he was tried for 48 accounts of torture and maltreatment of his own countrymen, often in a more brutal way than he was ordered. He was also found guilty of two counts of complicity to murder. Wehus was sentenced to death by the Supreme Court of Norway for treason in February 1947, and executed by firing squad at Akershus Fortress on 10 March the same year.