Albin Eines

Albin Konrad Eines (9 June 1886 – 19 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 World War II.

Early career Eines 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, after the Swedish General Strike. Eines was a member of Fagopposisjonen av 1911 and Norges Socialdemokratiske Ungdomsforbund, and was deputy leader for some time, He was a sub-editor in Klassekampen from 1911, and later worked in Vest-Finmarkens Arbeiderblad, Folkets Dagblad and Østfold Dagblad. when sub-editor Ingjald Nordstad took over.

Communist Party In 1920, Eines announced his scepticism towards the Twenty-one Conditions. However, he changed heart and joined the Communist Party when it was split from the Labour Party in 1923. Eines started working in Ny Tid, and edited that newspaper for a short while. 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, but returned to edit the newspaper in the autumn of 1927 before Christian Hilt took over later that year. In 1940, Eines 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, Eines 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.

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