Ernst Fredrik Eckhoff

Who was Ernst Fredrik Eckhoff?

Ernst Fredrik Eckhoff was a Norwegian judge.

He was born in 1905 as a son of jurist Nicolay Kristian Schreuder Eckhoff. He was a second cousin of legal academic Torstein Eckhoff, designer Tias Eckhoff and actor Johannes Eckhoff, and a grandnephew of architect Niels Stockfleth Darre Eckhoff. He was also a first cousin of Anders Lange. He lived in Kristiansand.

During the occupation of Norway by Nazi Germany, he was a member of Milorg. He was discovered and arrested by the Nazi authorities in December 1942, and was incarcerated at Grini from 28 June 1943 to the liberation of Norway on 8 May 1945. Soon after the liberation he was named as a Supreme Court Justice. In 1945 he was also named as a member of the commission Undersøkelseskommisjonen av 1945 that scrutinized the actions of the Norwegian government in 1940. The other commission members were Gustav Adolf Lammers Heiberg, Arnold Holmboe, Ole Hallesby, Nils Nilsen Thune, Arne Bergsgård and Sverre Steen, and the secretary was Helge Sivertsen.