{{Short description|Norwegian politician (1887–1961)}} {{Infobox officeholder | name = Harald Gram | image = Harald Gram.jpg |image_upright=1 | caption = Gram, c. 1930 | office = Member of Parliament | term_start = 1928 | term_end = 1936 | birth_date = {{birth date|1887|9|18|df=y}} | birth_place = Kristiania | death_date = {{death date and age|1961|6|7|1887|9|18|df=y}} | death_place = Oslo | party = Conservative | relations = Gregers Winther Wulfsberg Gram (father) | children = Gregers Gram | alma_mater = | occupation = Stipendiary magistrate | profession = Jurist | signature = | footnotes = }}
'''Harald Gram''' (18 September 1887 – 7 June 1961) was a Norwegian jurist, politician and genealogist. He was secretary general for the Conservative Party of Norway for 22 years, deputy mayor of Aker, member of Parliament from 1928 to 1936, and stipendiary magistrate in Oslo from 1936 to 1957. He was also noted for his work during World War II.
==Personal life== Gram was born in Kristiania as the son of former Prime Minister Gregers Winther Wulfsberg Gram (1846–1929) and Antoinette Augusta Brodtkorb (1846–1929).<ref name=nbl>{{cite encyclopedia|title=Harald Gram |encyclopedia=Norsk biografisk leksikon|publisher=Kunnskapsforlaget|location=Oslo|editor=Helle, Knut |editor-link=Knut Helle |first=Rolf|last=Danielsen|authorlink=Rolf Danielsen|volume=3|year=2001|url=http://www.snl.no/.nbl_biografi/Harald_Gram/utdypning|language=Norwegian|accessdate=30 March 2009}}</ref> Several of his ancestors on both the maternal and paternal side had been politicians, including Jens Jensen Gram, Gregers Winther Wulfsberg, Bernt Sverdrup Maschmann and Jens Aars.<ref name=nsd>{{cite web|url=http://www.nsd.uib.no/polsys/index.cfm?urlname=polsys&lan=&MenuItem=N1_1&ChildItem=&State=collapse&UttakNr=33&person=10953|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110527155446/http://www.nsd.uib.no/polsys/index.cfm?urlname=polsys&lan=&MenuItem=N1_1&ChildItem=&State=collapse&UttakNr=33&person=10953|url-status=dead|archive-date=May 27, 2011|title=Harald Gram|publisher=Norwegian Social Science Data Services (NSD)|language=Norwegian|accessdate=30 March 2009}}</ref> He was also a second cousin of Johan Fredrik and Mads Gram.<ref name=nbl2>{{cite encyclopedia|title=Gram family tree|encyclopedia=Norsk biografisk leksikon|publisher=Aschehoug|location=Oslo|editor1=Bull, Edvard |editor-link=Edvard Bull Sr. |editor2=Jansen, Einar |edition=1st|year=1929|volume=4|pages=529|language=Norwegian}}</ref> Harald Gram was married to Ingrid Meyer (née Sønderaall, 1888–1969), fathering the well-known resistance fighter Gregers Gram.<ref name=nbl/>
==Career== After finishing his education as a jurist, taking the cand.jur. degree in 1911, Gram was engaged as secretary general of the Conservative Party of Norway in 1914, a position he held until 1936.<ref name=nbl/> His first post as an elected politician was as a member of Aker municipal council in 1919. From 1925 to 1928 he served as deputy mayor. He then entered national politics, being elected to the Norwegian Parliament in 1927, 1930 and 1933, representing Akershus. He was not-elected to Parliament in 1936, instead returning to Aker municipal council.<ref name=nsd/> He was also hired as the stipendiary magistrate in Oslo, serving from 1936 to 1957.<ref name=snl>{{cite encyclopedia |year=2007 |title=Harald Gram |encyclopedia=Store norske leksikon |editor=Henriksen, Petter |publisher=Kunnskapsforlaget |location=Oslo |url=http://www.snl.no/Harald_Gram |language=Norwegian | accessdate=30 March 2009 }}</ref>
Gram was a resistance pioneer during World War II, organising protests against efforts from Vidkun Quisling's Nasjonal Samling to take control over professional organisations. In 1942 he was called to Stockholm to take over Anders Frihagen's duties at the Norwegian Legation there, leading an office responsible for financing the resistance work in Norway. This office, called ''Idrettskontoret'' ("The Sports Office"), was responsible for secret transfers of funds to the resistance movement, and the office also established a secret courier and communications service in Norway. The office was later reorganised, and appeared under the new name ''Sambandskontoret''.<ref name=kl-gram-harald>{{cite encyclopedia |last=Moland |first=Arnfinn |authorlink=Arnfinn Moland |encyclopedia=Norsk krigsleksikon 1940-45 |title=Gram, Harald |language=Norwegian |url=http://mediabase1.uib.no/krigslex/g/g2.html#gram-harald |access-date=25 March 2009 |year=1995 |publisher=Cappelen |location=Oslo |isbn=82-02-14138-9 |page=139 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090420173411/http://mediabase1.uib.no/krigslex/g/g2.html#gram-harald |archive-date=20 April 2009 }}</ref> In 1944, his son was killed by German agents.<ref>{{cite encyclopedia|title=Gregers Gram|encyclopedia=Norsk biografisk leksikon|publisher=Kunnskapsforlaget|location=Oslo|editor=Helle, Knut|first=Ivar|last=Kraglund|volume=3|year=2001|url=http://www.snl.no/.nbl_biografi/Gregers_Gram/utdypning_%E2%80%93_2|language=Norwegian|accessdate=30 March 2009}}</ref> The acting stipendiary magistrate while Gram was in Sweden was the Nazi Wilhelm Frimann Koren Christie.<ref>{{cite encyclopedia|first=Hans Fredrik|last=Dahl|authorlink=Hans Fredrik Dahl|editor=Dahl, Hans Fredrik|encyclopedia=Norsk krigsleksikon 1940-45|title=Christie, Wilhelm Frimann Koren|url=http://mediabase1.uib.no/krigslex/c/c1.html#christie-wilhelm|access-date=30 January 2010|year=1995|publisher=Cappelen|volume=|location=Oslo|isbn=|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130929024655/http://mediabase1.uib.no/krigslex/c/c1.html#christie-wilhelm|archive-date=29 September 2013}}</ref>
After the war, Gram continued in his office position in Oslo. He was also interested in genealogy, and served as editor-in-chief for the magazine ''Norsk slektshistorisk tidsskrift'' from 1947 to 1959, and was a board member of the Norwegian Genealogical Society from 1947 to 1957.<ref name=nbl/> He was also the editor of ''Norges Statskalender'' in 1947 and 1948, as well as co-publishing the yearbook ''Hvem er Hvem?'' ("Who's Who?").<ref name=nsd/>
Gram was decorated as a Knight of the Order of St. Olav in 1947 and as a Commander of the Danish Order of the Dannebrog.<ref name=nbl/>
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