Reidar Kvammen

Kvammen was born in Stavanger, the son of shoemaker Rasmus Andreas Kvammen and Janna Kvammen, and worked as a police officer. He married Anna Martea Steen in 1942. During the German occupation of Norway Kvammen was sent to a concentration camp in German-occupied Poland: he had refused to participate in the Nazification of the police. He was first imprisoned in August 1943 and held in prison in Stavanger, then in Grini concentration camp from August to December 1943, then in Stutthof concentration camp until the end of the war. Captivity was a physical strain on Kvammen, and he had to go to Sweden for rehabilitation after the war. His autobiography, 50 ganger på Norges landslag, was issued in 1949.