Niels-Henrik Kolderup


Niels-Henrik Kolderup was a Norwegian geologist, seismologist, politician for the Conservative Party, and member of the Norwegian Parliament.

Early years

He studied at the Norwegian Military Academy from 1916 to 1917 and was then employed at the Bergen Museum in 1919, where his father Carl Fredrik Kolderup was a professor. He married Else Krabbe in 1928 and together they had four children; Lily, Kitty, Else Margrethe, and Gedske.

Professor

The son of Carl Fredrik Kolderup and Kitty Pedersen, he became a professor at the Bergen Museum in 1939, and at the University of Bergen in 1948. His research was primarily on geology and seismology. He was a deputy member of the Storting representing the constituency Bergen from 1945 to 1953. He was decorated Knight of the Order of St. Olav in 1967.

Military

In 1918, Kolderup become a Second Lieutenant in the Norwegian military, then a First Lieutenant in 1925, and finally a Captain in 1935. He was arrested in 1941, during the Second World War, for being a part of the Norwegian resistance movement against Nazi occupation, and was taken to Grini, a concentration camp located near Oslo. He was released, re-arrested, and then taken to Germany. He spent there three years in concentration camps. These camps included, Natzweiler, Dachau, and Sachsenhausen. At the end of the war Kolderup was found nearly dead and paralyzed from the waist down. He spent time in Sweden recovering before returning home to Bergen.