Carl Henry

Who was Carl Henry?

Carl Henry was a Norwegian politician for the Labour Party.

He was born in Kristiania as a son of baker Carl Jacobsen and Helga Elise Pedersen. He attended upper secondary school for four years, studying both sciences and commerce, the latter in Sandefjord. He also attended the Nordic folk high school in Geneva. He was a journalist by occupation, starting in 1929. In 1930 he was promoted to subeditor in the newspaper Nybrott in Larvik. From 1935 to 1952 he was the newspaper's manager. During the occupation of Norway by Nazi Germany, Nybrott was stopped briefly in August 1940, and after being resumed, it was merged with the bourgeois Østlands-Posten to form Larvik Dagblad from 1 July 1943. The two editors-in-chief Ingjald Nordstad and Øyvind Næss were arrested on 8 December 1943, and Henry replaced them for the rest of the war.

The time as newspaper editor under Nazi rule did not hurt Henry's career, as he was elected to the Parliament of Norway from the Market towns of Vestfold county in 1945.