Harald Slåttelid

Who was Harald Slåttelid?

Harald Andreas Gerotti Slåttelid was a Norwegian trade unionist, newspaper editor and communist resistance member.

He was born in Os, Hordaland, to a father from Volda and a mother from Fana. He worked in Odda, and married Sigrid Johansen from Kristiania here in 1918. They had two children.

He was a member of the Norwegian Labour Party from 1909, and was organized in a union from 1911. He had a modest technical education. He chaired the local trade union from 1922, and was a board member of the Norwegian Union of Electricians from 1922 to 1923. From 1923 to 1930 he was a member of the supervisory council of the Norwegian Confederation of Trade Unions. He was a member of the executive committee of Odda municipal council for many years.

In 1923 he joined the Communist Party. He edited the newspaper Hardanger Arbeiderblad, and chaired the Communist Party in Odda from 1926. He continued his work for the Communist Party during the occupation of Norway by Nazi Germany, when the party was illegal. He was arrested by the Nazis on 26 May 1942, and imprisoned in Møllergata 19 and Grini concentration camp.