Carl Joachim Hambro (politician)
- Carl Joachim Hambro (politician)
Carl Joachim Hambro (usually C.J. Hambro) (January 5 1885ndash 15 December 1964) was a leading politician from the Norwegian Conservative Party. He was a member of the Norwegian Parliament from 1919 to 1957, party Chairman from 1928 to 1934, speaker in the Parliament 1926 to 1933 and 1935 to 1945, and President of the Assembly of the League of Nations delegates in 1939-40 and 1946.
He played a crucial role at the time of the German invasion in 9 April 1940. He was one of the few politicians who really understood Hitler's ambitions toward the country. Learning from what had happened to Czechoslovakia in 1938, Hambro was prepared, and with only six hours advance notice, he managed to organize the escape of king Haakon VII and his family, the government, the parliament and the gold reserves of the Bank of Norway. They all left on a train commissioned by Hambro just 30 minutes before the Germans arrived in Oslo. They had been delayed by the sinking of the German cruiser "Blücher".
In the days after the invasion, Hambro worked actively from Sweden's capital Stockholm to correct the image the American journalist Leland Stowe had portrayed of the situation in Norway. While in Sweden, Hambro also was instrumental in organizing the Norwegian underground resistance movement via telephone.
His son was the politician Edvard Hambro.
External links
* [http://members.tdn.com/~dagwood/hamro.html Short biography of Hambro] ndash From the homepage of user dagwood at ISP www.tdn.com (The Daily News, Longview, WA, USA)
*no icon [http://lotus.uib.no/norgeslexi/krigslex/h/h1.html#hambro-cj C.J. Hambro war efforts] ndash From the "NorgesLexi" internet encyclopedia's "Norwegian War Encyclopedia"
* http://home.no.net/pgjendem/artikler/pg_familien_Bjoerset.htm
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