Alf Amble

Who was Alf Amble?

Alf Maria Amble was a Norwegian anti-Semitic activist and writer.

He was born in Trondhjem, but grew up in a foster home in Stjørdal. He took a short technical education in Oslo in 1925–1926, but committed several petty crimes in his young days. He was given a new chance to migrate to Canada, but was sentenced for crimes here too, and was extradited. After spending some time at sea he returned to Norway in 1928–1929. He worked briefly within the Communist Party of Norway, but later shifted to the far right and joined Fatherland League. Before the Second World War he was also affiliated with the Nazi party Norges Nasjonal-Socialistiske Arbeiderparti, and was a member of the Deutscher Fichte-Bund from 1937. He was briefly involved in the Oxford Movement, but made a break with this organization.

He committed more crimes around 1930, was convicted of breaking and entering and three years in prison. He was released from Opstad tvangsarbeidshus in 1933, and despite taking the examen artium in 1934 he spent most of his future career as an activist. Historian Terje Emberland has analyzed his views as loosely based on Norse mythology, with millennialistic and messianistic aspects.