Olaf Sunde
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Olaf Sunde (14 May 1915 - 26 October 1981) was a Norwegian Lawyer and workers rights activist. Sunde was born in Bergen in 1915. However his family moved to Oslo in 1930. During world war II, Sunde was a leader of a local group of Milorg, the Norwegian armed resistance against the Nazi occupation. In this capacity Sunde was present at Akershus fortress in Oslo the 8th. of May 1945. This was when Germany capitulated and formally handed the fortress over to Milorg. The Norwegian flag was raised for the first time since 1940, and Norway was a free and souvereign nation again. After the war, Sunde worked as a lawyer for the (Norwegian Confederation of Trade Unions) (LO) in Norway where he headed their legal department. He later held the same office for the International Labour Organisation (ILO), a UN subsidiary based in Geneva. Sunde was admitted to the bar at the Supreme Court of Norway.
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The author Jostein Nyhamar writes that "no other labour movement issue caused so much prolonged and heated debate in the press as the issue of collective insurance." His work " The history of the labour movement in Norway" (published by Tiden Norsk Forlag in 1990, ISBN 82-10-02750-6) describes the court case filed against LO, and that Sunde was the LO-lawyer. Jostein Nyhamars publication has a picture of chief justice Terje Wold and the supreme court lawyers J.B.Hjort and Olaf Sunde in the [1]Supreme Court of Norway
Interpreter to the Norwegian delegation to the ILO International Labour Conference, Mirjam Nordahl, states that Sunde was part of the Norwegian delegation to this lawmaking body in the 1960s and 1970s and that he was later employed by the International Labour Office, the permanent exceutive branch of ILO.
