Henry Thingstad

Henry Thingstad (9 April 1916 – 19 May 1943) was a Norwegian sports official and communist resistance member.

He was born in Trondhjem to a mother from Skogn Municipality and a father from Tynset Municipality. Both died before Thingstad turned twenty. He was a watchmaker by profession. Before the Second World War he was active in the workers' sports club Arbeidernes TF and the Workers' Confederation of Sports. He chaired the district workers' sports organization in Sør-Trøndelag from 1938 to 1940. He also chaired the workers' sports club SK Ørnulf. In 1939 he supported the merger between the workers' and bourgeois sports organizations, in order to create a unity front against fascism. A German court-martial sentenced him to death on 4 May 1943, and he was executed at Kristiansten Fortress together with ten other people on 19 May. His body was not disposed of, but buried in the Nidaros Cathedral graveyard.