Eiliv Odde Hauge

Eiliv Odde Hauge

Eiliv Odde Hauge (10 November 1913 – 3 July 1971) was a Norwegian military officer, screenwriter, author and museum director. During World War II, he was a member of the Norwegian resistance movement.^[1][2]

Biography

Hauge was born at Stranda in Møre og Romsdal, Norway. An early member of the National Socialist Workers' Party of Norway (NNSAP) and later Nasjonal Samling (NS) during his youth in the 1930s,^[3] Hauge had turned to join the Norwegian resistance movement by the time of the German invasion of Norway. On 30 May 1940 he helped organise and took part in the expedition from Ålesund of the motorboat Nyo that reached Baltasound, Shetland.^[4]

As a lieutenant in the exiled Norwegian Army, he headed the Norwegian Government Film Unit during the war, and after the war the Supreme Headquarters' Psychological Warfare Division, which distributed wartime films.^[5]

Hauge wrote several books about the Norwegian war effort, most notably Flukten fra Dakar (J. W. Eides Forlag; 1951). He also wrote the script for the film developed from the book and which was directed by Titus Vibe-Müller (1912–1986).^[5][6]

Hauge was director of the Valdres Folkemuseum from 1959 to 1964. He died in 1971 and was buried in Øystre Slidre in Oppland.^[1][7]

References

1. "Cemeteries in Norway". DIS-Norge. Retrieved 10 October 2015.
2. "Eiliv Odde Hauge". Store norske leksikon. 11 September 2019. Retrieved October 1, 2020.
3. Garau, Salvatore (2015). Fascism and Ideology: Italy, Britain, and Norway. Routledge. pp. 160–163. ISBN 9781317909460.
4. Ulstein, Ragnar (1979). Englandsfarten 1: Alarm i Ålesund. Samlaget. p. 300. ISBN 8252109829.
5. Disen, Ole H.P. (1997). Den store illusjonen: filmbyråenes historie. Norske filmbyråers forening. p. 155. ISBN 8299434602.
6. "Titus Vibe-Müller". Store norske leksikon. Retrieved October 1, 2020.
7. "Valdres Folkemuseum". Store norske leksikon. 20 January 2015. Retrieved October 1, 2020.