Adolf Skjegstad

Who was Adolf Skjegstad?

Adolf Skjegstad, who usually called himself A. Skjegstad was a Norwegian journalist.

He was born in Løten as a son of Kristian Olsen Skjegstad and Marie Krog Borchgrevink. He had five brothers and two sisters, mostly younger than he was. He married Petra Røhne, and they had two sons and one daughter. They celebrated their gold wedding anniversary in 1983.

He began his journalistic career in 1917 in Østerdalens Arbeiderblad. He later worked in Demokraten, and was involved in the labour movement. In 1923, when the Young Communist League constituted itself as youth wing of the Communist Party, he was a board member of the Hedmark branch. He later became one of the few to go from a labour newspaper to a high-profile bourgeois and conservative newspaper, in his case Aftenposten. He was a sports journalist, and contributed with a chapter about sports in Eyvind Lillevold's history of Hamar, Hamars historie, in 1949. He was also the editor of Hamar IL's club newspaper in 1928, but this soon went defunct. He especially covered speed skating and orienteering.