Fredrik Ramm

Fredrik Ramm (11 March 1892 – 15 November 1943) was a Norwegian journalist.

Personal life He was born in Oslo as a son of chief physician Fredrik G. O. Ramm and Anna Margaretha Brinchmann. He was a nephew of pioneering woman physician Louise Vally Ramm and writer Minda Ramm who was married to Hans E. Kinck. He was also a distant relative of Nikolai Ramm Østgaard.

In 1917 he married Eva With, settling at Vinderen. in Roald Amundsen's North Pole expedition in May 1925, he became news editor in Morgenbladet from 1928. He also wrote one chapter in Amundsen's book 88° nord. Together with people like Ronald Fangen Ramm participated in the Oxford Group.

He received the Italian Geographic Society Medal and was decorated as a Knight, First Class of the Order of St. Olav, a Knight of the Italian Order of the Crown and an Officier d'Académie in France.

Theatrical Tribute

After his death in 1943, on November 29, 1944, a special dramatic tribute to Ramm, And Still They Fight was presented at The New York Times Hall. The play was presented under the auspices of Moral Re-Armament, an international moral and spiritual movement founded in 1938 (now known as Initiatives of Change) as a tribute for "his courageous fight for a new Europe".