Ragnar Skancke

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Ragnar Sigvald Skancke (1890 - August 28, 1948) was the Norwegian Minister of Labour and Minister for Church and Educational Affairs in Vidkun Quisling's government of the Nasjonal Samling party during World War II.

Before the war Skancke was a highly respected professor of electrical engineering at the Norwegian Institute of Technology and a member of the Royal Norwegian Academy of Sciences.

When the war ended, Skancke was tried for treason and imprisoned for life, but three years later the government sentenced him to death.

He was executed by firing squad at Akershus festning on August 28, 1948, the (to this date) last person to be executed in Norway.