Julius Hougen

Julius Hougen (7 November 1906 – 19 December 1993) was a Norwegian jurist and radio personality. He became known as the voice from Sørlandet over a period of more than forty years, eventually as a leader of the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation's district office in Kristiansand. Six of the members of Laudal's organization were later sentenced to death and shot at Trandum in May 1944. While being at Grini, he was placed at the "death cell" called "" for a period, and later as ordinary camp prisoner.

Post-war career Hougen was a reporter for NRK when King Haakon VII returned to Oslo 7 June 1945. He later co-chaired the first large-scale charity fundraising campaigns in Norwegian radio. Later the Norwegian Radium Hospital was subject to similar fund-raising. He died in Kristiansand on 19 December 1993.