Harald Grieg

Harald Grieg (1894 - 1972) was a Norwegian publisher.

He was the brother of Nordahl Grieg, writer and member of the Norwegian resistance movement during the German occupation of Norway. Harald Grieg had a more ambivalent relationship to the resistance movement.

Harald Grieg had been director of the publishing house Gyldendal Norsk Forlag since 1925. From 1940, during the German occupation of Norway, the publishing house was utilized to publish national socialist material. Novelist and national socialist Knut Hamsun was heavily involved here; Hamsun was even an old friend of Harald Grieg.cite encyclopedia |last= |first= |author= |authorlink= |coauthors= |editor=Dahl, Hans Fredrik |encyclopedia=Norsk krigsleksikon 1940-45 |title=Grieg, Harald |url=http://www.norgeslexi.com/krigslex/g/g2.html#grieg-harald |accessdate=2008-07-16 |accessyear= |accessmonth= |edition= |date= |year=1995 |month= |publisher=Cappelen |volume= |location=Oslo |id= |isbn= |doi= |pages= |quote= ]

Grieg was also chairman of the board of Nationaltheatret. In June 1941 the board rejected subordination under the so-called Ministry of Culture and Enlightenment. This provoked the authorities, and Grieg, board member Francis Bull and theatre director Johannes Sejersted Bødtker were arrested. Grieg was incarcerated at Grini concentration camp, but was later released.b] Knut Hamsun's son Tore Hamsun was instated as acting director of Gyldendal publishing house.

After the war's end, in 1945, Harald Grieg returned to his old post and remained director until 1970.

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