Einar Maseng

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Einar Maseng (born 1880) was a diplomat in the Norwegian foreign service. Born in Oslo, he was educated in a Norwegian officer's school named Krigsskolen. He later entered the foreign service serving as a Consul General in Germany before later becoming the first Norwegian delegate to The Hague and a substitute delegate to the League of Nations. In the years leading up to the Second World War, Maseng was assigned the post of the Norwegian Ambassador to Moscow and the Soviet Union. At the onset of the war, he, along with several other Ambassadors, was forced to leave the Soviet Union due to its alliance with Nazi Germany.

After the war, Maseng retired from the foreign service due to a difference of opinion over whether Norway should become more participatory in world affairs or become more isolationist. A proponent of the isolationist theory, Maseng went on to write several books on the subject, which were recently re-released. The books were also recently re-analyzed by Professor Lars Mjoset of the University of Oslo.

Maseng was married several times, though never for a particularly long time. The most notable of his marriages were to Sigrid Maseng, who published a book about the Grini Concentration Camp in Norway, and to the Countess Hellevid Catharina Cecilia Posse, whom he married in 1929 while serving as the Consul General in Hamburg, Germany.