Albin Eines

Albin Konrad Eines (9 June 1886 – May 1947) was a Norwegian newspaper editor and politician for the Labour and Communist Labour parties. He later became a Nazi, working for Norwegian and German Nazis during the Second World War.

Early career

He was born in Trondheim. He took a typographer and bookbinder education in Sweden, where he joined the socialist movement under Zeth Höglund. He moved back to Norway in 1909,^[1] after the Swedish General Strike.^[2] He was a member of Fagopposisjonen av 1911 and Norges Socialdemokratiske Ungdomsforbund,^[3] and was deputy leader for some time,^[1] but resigned his NSU membership in 1921 as he felt too old.^[4] He was a sub-editor in Klassekampen from 1911, and later worked in Vest-Finmarkens Arbeiderblad, Folkets Dagblad and Østfold Dagblad.^[1] He edited Folkets Dagblad (before 1921 named Nybrott) from 1919 to 1922,^[5] when sub-editor Ingjald Nordstad took over.^[6]

Communist Party

In 1920 he announced his scepticism towards the Twenty-one Conditions.^[7] However, he changed heart and joined the Communist Party when it was split from the Labour Party in 1923.^[8] He started working in Ny Tid, and edited that newspaper for a short while.^[1] He was a delegate at the Fifth Comintern Congress in 1925.^[2] In the spring of 1927 Eines took over as editor of the main newspaper of the Communist Party, Norges Kommunistblad.^[9] He was absent during the summer, as he was imprisoned (five weeks of detention, without conviction) together with Henry W. Kristiansen, Just Lippe and Otto Luihn,^[10] but returned to edit the newspaper in the autumn of 1927 before Christian Hilt took over later that year.^[9]

Right-winger

He left the Communist Party around New Years' 1927–1928.^[2] Already in 1928 he started working for the right-wing newspaper Tidens Tegn.^[11] In 1940 he moved to the Fascist newspaper Fritt Folk. He also joined the Fascist party Nasjonal Samling (NS). He thus found a position during the occupation of Norway by Nazi Germany, when NS and the German Nazis took over power. In March 1942 he was hired as sub-editor, Odd Fossum's second-in-command, on the newspaper Norsk Arbeidsliv. The newspaper belonged to the Norwegian Confederation of Trade Unions where the Nazis recently had usurped full power. In December 1943 he was promoted to editor-in-chief, and he remained so until July 1944.^[11]

In 1947, during the legal purge in Norway after World War II, Krogh was convicted of treason and sentenced to four years in prison. He died in prison that same year.^[11]

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