Norwegian journalist
Fredrik Ramm
(11 March 1892 ? 15 November 1943) was a
Norwegian
journalist.
Personal life
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He was born in
Oslo
as a son of chief physician
Fredrik G. O. Ramm
and Anna Margaretha Brinchmann. He was a nephew of pioneering woman physician
Louise Vally Ramm
and writer
Minda Ramm
who was married to
Hans E. Kinck
. He was also a distant relative of
Nikolai Ramm Østgaard
.
[1]
[2]
In 1917 he married Eva With, settling at
Vinderen
.
[1]
Their son Fredrik Ramm, Jr. became director of
Norwegian Brewers
.
[2]
Career
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Ramm
finished
his secondary education in 1910. He was a journalist in
Verdens Gang
from 1915 and in
Morgenbladet
from 1917, Paris correspondent for
Verdens Gang
,
Politiken
og
Stockholms-Tidningen
from 1919 to 1921 and journalist in
Tidens Tegn
from 1921.
[1]
After participating as the only journalist
[3]
in
Roald Amundsen
's
North Pole expedition
in May 1925,
[4]
he became news editor in
Morgenbladet
from 1928.
[5]
He also wrote one chapter in Amundsen's book
88° nord
.
[1]
Ramm also wrote the pamphlets
En forsvarsbrochure
in 1915 and
Ruhr-aksjonen
in 1925.
[1]
He is especially known for the article "En skitten strøm flyter over landet" (A Dirty Stream Flows Over the Country) on 28 October 1931, an attack on
Gyldendal Norsk Forlag
's novel contest in 1931. Ramm saw the entrants to this contest as being infested by
Freudianism
. He especially lambasted the runner-up, the radical intellectual writer
Sigurd Hoel
, but also
Hans Backer Furst
,
Rolf Stenersen
and
Karo Espeseth
.
[6]
Together with people like
Ronald Fangen
Ramm participated in the
Oxford Group
.
[7]
He received the
Italian Geographic Society
Medal and was decorated as a Knight, First Class of the
Order of St. Olav
, a Knight of the
Italian Order of the Crown
and an
Officier d'Academie
in France.
[1]
Death
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During the
occupation of Norway by Nazi Germany
Ramm was arrested several times. From June to July 1940 he was held in
Møllergata 19
. He was then arrested in September 1941 following the
milk strike
, together with colleague
Olaf Gjerløw
. He was imprisoned in
Grini concentration camp
and
Akershus Fortress
before being shipped to Germany. In October 1941 he reached
Hamburg-Fuhlsbuttel
. After falling ill he got permission to go home in November 1943, but died in Denmark on the way back.
[8]
[9]
Theatrical Tribute
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After his death in 1943, on November 29, 1944, a special dramatic tribute to Ramm,
"And Still They Fight"
was presented at
The New York Times Hall
. The play was presented under the auspices of
Moral Re-Armament
, an international moral and spiritual movement founded in 1938 (now known as
Initiatives of Change
) as a tribute for "his courageous fight for a new Europe".
[3]
References
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Steenstrup, Bjørn, ed. (1930).
"Ramm, Fredrik"
.
Hvem er hvem?
(in Norwegian). Oslo: Aschehoug. p. 342
. Retrieved
27 November
2012
.
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a
b
"Ramm"
.
Store norske leksikon
(in Norwegian)
. Retrieved
27 November
2012
.
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a
b
"Norwegians See Play", The New York Times, November 30, 1944
- ^
https://frammuseum.no/polar-history/expeditions/the-norge-flight-1926
- ^
"Fredrik Ramm"
.
Norsk polarhistorie
(in Norwegian).
- ^
Stai, Arne (1954).
Norsk kultur- og moraldebatt i 1930-arene
(in Norwegian). Oslo: Gyldendal. p. 95.
- ^
Sævik, Tore Hjalmar (18 June 2013). "De ville vekke overklassen".
Dagen
(in Norwegian). pp. 18?19.
- ^
Ottosen, Kristian
, ed. (1995).
Nordmenn i fangenskap 1940?1945
(in Norwegian) (1st ed.). Oslo: Universitetsforlaget. p. 527.
ISBN
82-15-00288-9
.
- ^
"Fredrik Ramm"
.
Store norske leksikon
(in Norwegian)
. Retrieved
30 April
2014
.
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