Johan Cappelen
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Johan Cappelen (25 February 1889 – 18 October 1947) was a Norwegian lawyer and politician for the Conservative Party.
He was born in Skogn[1] as a son of physician Johan Christian Severin Cappelen (1855–1936) and Katharina M. Steen (1859–1915). He had one sister and one brother. He was a nephew of physician Axel Hermansen Cappelen.[2]
He graduated from the Royal Frederick University with cand.jur. degree in 1911. He worked as a deputy judge,[citation needed] and from 1915, attorney in Trondhjem. He was barrister with access to work with Supreme Court from 1922.[1]
As a politician Cappelen was elected to Trondhjem city council, serving as mayor from 1931 to 1934. In 1940 he was appointed County Governor of Sør-Trøndelag. However, due to the German occupation of Norway Cappelen was removed in the autumn of 1940.[1]
In 1942 he joined the "Five Man Committee" in Trøndelag which was going to build the resistance group Sivorg. He was a close contact of Ferdinand Schjelderup in Kretsen. In 1943 he was denounced by Henry Rinnan when the Thingstad Group was discovered.[3] He was arrested in March 1943 and imprisoned in Vollan and Falstad.[4] After falling ill he was transferred to Innherred Hospital, where he managed to continue his resistance work with contacts to Trondheim.[3] However, in March 1945 he was transferred to Grini concentration camp and remained there until the war's end.[4]
When the occupation ended in 1945, Cappelen was appointed Minister of Justice and the Police in the non-partisan coalition government Gerhardsen's First Cabinet. This cabinet lasted from June to November 1945, when a general election was held and the Gerhardsen's Second Cabinet assumed office. Cappelen was then reinstated as County Governor of Sør-Trøndelag, a post he held until his death in 1947.[1]
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| Political offices | ||
|---|---|---|
| Preceded by | Mayor of Trondheim 1931–1934 |
Succeeded by Harald Pedersen |
| Preceded by | County Governor of Sør-Trøndelag 1940–1947 (deposed by Nazis 1940–1945) |
Succeeded by Ivar Skjånes |
| Preceded by | Minister of Justice and the Police June 1945–November 1945 |
Succeeded by Oscar Chr. Gundersen |
- Use dmy dates from July 2013
- Articles with unsourced statements from November 2010
- 1889 births
- 1947 deaths
- People from Levanger
- University of Oslo alumni
- Norwegian lawyers
- Mayors of Trondheim
- Conservative Party (Norway) politicians
- County Governors of Norway
- Government ministers of Norway
- Norwegian resistance members
- Grini concentration camp survivors
- Falstad concentration camp survivors
- Vollan concentration camp survivors
- Cappelen family
