Arne Gauslå

Arne Gauslaa (8 February 1913 – 30 October 1942) was a Norwegian communist, newspaper editor and resistance member.

Biography He was born in Solum, to a mother from Solum and a father from Herefoss. His father Olav Gauslaa was a member of Solum municipal council from 1910 to 1927 and again from 1931, and had joined the Communist Party in 1923. Arne Gauslaa married Audhild Olsen from Skien in 1932, and had one foster child. The family lived in Oslo. From 1940 his work was underground in the resistance movement, as Norway was occupied by Nazi Germany. They were blown after former resistance member Karsten Sølvberg had cracked during Gestapo torture, become a Gestapo agent and informed on them. On 30 October 1942 the centre was surrounded by Gestapo agents. There was a shootout, in which two Germans and two Norwegian communists including Gauslaa were killed. He was buried in Oslo.