Ole Vries Hassel

Ole de Vries Hassel (20 September 1894 – 24 July 1984) was a Norwegian jurist and civil servant who represented Nasjonal Samling during the Second World War.

He was born in Kristiania, being of German lineage on the paternal side, and grew up in Øvre Eiker and Sandar before finishing his secondary education in Larvik in 1912. He then took the cand.jur. degree in 1916, and after various deputy posts he was hired as a secretary in the Ministry of Justice. Settling in Oslo, he married in 1930 and had three children.

Hassel was promoted to assistant secretary in the Ministry of Justice in 1929,

From 1942 to 1943 he served as the County Governor of Hedmark. He was also appointed as chairman of both the Union of Norwegian Cities and the Norwegian Association of Rural Municipalities, merging them into one association in 1942 which he also chaired, and represented Norway in the International Union of Local Authorities.

After the war, in 1948, Ole de Vries Hassel was convicted for treason and sentenced to three and a half years of forced labour. He was also banned indefinitely from the Ministry of Justice. After his release he worked as an attorney in Oslo from 1953, later in his native Sandar.