Jens Hundseid
Norwegian politician
Died when: 82 years 221 days (991 months)Star Sign: Taurus
Jens Valentinsen Hundseid (6 May 1883 – 2 April 1965) was a Norwegian politician from the Agrarian Party.He was a member of the Norwegian parliament from 1924 to 1940 and the 20th prime minister of Norway from 1932 to 1933.
Hundseid felt forced to join Nasjonal Samling who supported the Nazis in 1940, a choice he later called "cowardly".In the legal purge in Norway following World War II he was sentenced to 10 years in prison.
Pardoned in 1949 he lived a recluse in Oslo until his death in 1965.
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