Harald Slåttelid

Harald Andreas Gerotti Slåttelid (20 January 1895 – 1 March 1943) was a Norwegian trade unionist, newspaper editor, and communist resistance member.

He was born in Os Municipality, to a father from Volda and a mother from Fana. He worked in Odda, and married Sigrid Johansen from Kristiania here in 1918. They had three children.

He was a member of the Norwegian Labour Party from 1909, and was organized in a union from 1911. He had a modest technical education. He continued his work for the Communist Party during the occupation of Norway by Nazi Germany, when the party was illegal. He was arrested by the Nazis on 26 May 1942, and imprisoned in Møllergata 19 and Grini detention camp.

On 1 March 1943 he was executed at Trandumskogen. In 1945 a total of 194 bodies were found in mass graves in the woods of Trandum, 173 Norwegians, six British and fifteen Soviet citizens.

His son Ørnulf (sometimes given as Ørnulv) Slåttelid, born 1919, became the illegal leader of the Young Communist League after Arne Gauslaa in 1942. He was arrested by the Nazis in the same year, and committed suicide in prison.