Einar Syvertsen: Editor of NS Månedshefte (1941-1945)

In his youth, Syversten was involved in scouting and the youth movement. As a 22-year-old, he came to Gjøvik in 1918, where he made a living as an accountant. In 1928 he started selling paper and photographic equipment. In Mjøsbyen, Syvertsen was married to photographer Marie Haug (1887-1980).

Syvertsen was strongly anti-socialist and in the 1920s became a board member of the local Frisinnede Venstre. From 1924 to 1933, he was secretary of the Gjøvik Borgerparti, an electoral coalition for liberal liberals and conservatives. However, Syvertsen himself claimed that he reacted to the fact that the party members' self-interests were more important than the local community and the fatherland, and left the Citizens Party's general meeting in April 1933 in anger.

Nasjonal Samling

Later that year he joined an informally organized NS team in Gjøvik, and topped the party's list at the general election in 1933. When the party entered a list at the municipal election in 1934, he and three others from Nasjonal Samling entered the city council. At this time, Syvertsen became chairman of the party team in Gjøvik and, according to Willy Klevenberg and Bjørn Østring, among others, acted almost as a father figure for the young NS activists in the town. Østring was employed in Syvertsen's shop.

Syvertsen was a member of the National Socialist Council before the war and participated, among other things, in the much-discussed council meeting on 7 April 1940. When the Employment Service was established, in the autumn of 1940 he was encouraged to apply for a position there. The area of activity was the school department, where he received the rank of county manager. Syvertsen and his wife sold their businesses in Gjøvik and moved to Oslo. From 1941 to 1945 Syvertsen was editor of NS Månedshefte, where he also wrote a number of articles. The son Einar Haug Syvertsen was editor of the picture magazine Munin.

On 6 November 1948, Syvertsen was sentenced to two years' imprisonment for treason. Later he wrote a number of articles in which he tried to present a different view than the established one on the history of the occupation. He died in 1973.