Years of service 1940–1945 Battles and wars World War II | Battles/wars World War II Allegiance Nazi Germany | |
Born 1 June 1919
Stavanger, Norway ( 1919-06-01 ) Rank Norwegian Police, SS and Statspolitiet officer Unit Norwegian Police Service
SS Division Wiking
Statspolitiet Died 30 January 1947, Sverresborg, Bergen, Norway |
Holger Tou jr (1 June 1919 – 30 January 1947) was a Norwegian police official and member of the fascist party Nasjonal Samling since before World War II, who was sentenced to death in 1946 and executed in 1947. He was born in Stavanger. During the occupation of Norway by Nazi Germany he was hired as a police officer by the regular Norwegian police in 1940. For a time he served as a volunteer in the 5th SS Panzer Division Wiking, before he was back in the police as a police officer in Stavanger in 1942. He was then loaned to the Statspolitiet and was involved in several operations cooperating with the German Sicherheitspolizei. Tou became a full-time employee for Statspolitiet in February 1945.
In the legal purge he was sentenced to death for murder, torture, bodily harm, aggravated assault with dangerous tools and maltreatment of his own countrymen by the Supreme Court of Norway 6 September 1946. Holger Tou jr was executed by firing squad at Sverresborg Fortress in Bergen 30 January 1947.