91 Facts About Anders Lange

Anders Lange joined the right-wing Fatherland League organisation upon his return to Norway in 1929, and he became a popular speaker at public rallies.

Anders Lange was initially blocked from entering the organised Norwegian resistance during the Second World War, but nonetheless did work to assist resistance members, and he was arrested by the Germans and imprisoned twice.

Anders Lange started touring the country to speak at his public rallies, and the paper he published became increasingly political.

Anders Lange was a charismatic right-wing public speaker who first and foremost objected to high taxes, state-regulations and public bureaucracy.

Anders Lange gained a considerable following among youth in the 1960s, and their activities included to counter-demonstrate against left-wing demonstrations.

The new party, named Anders Lange's Party was founded by popular acclamation during a public meeting at Saga kino.

Anders Lange successfully entered the Norwegian Parliament after the election later the same year, but his new-found political career came to an abrupt end when he died the following year.

Anders Sigurd Lange was born in Nordstrand, Aker to doctor Alf Lange and Anna Elisabeth Svensson.

The Anders Lange family was originally from Holstein and Denmark, and included several prominent public officials, priests, doctors and businessmen.

Anders Lange's parents were divorced in 1911, and Anna Elisabeth moved to Bergen with her three children.

Anders Lange started his secondary education at Vestheim School in 1921, but failed to graduate examen artium.

Anders Lange subsequently moved to Kristiansand in 1923, and finished his education at Kristiansand Cathedral School in 1924.

Anders Lange was not interested in politics in his youth, spending his free time in outdoor recreation and sports.

In Kristiania, Anders Lange had played football and ice hockey for the club Mercantile SFK, and he continued to play football for FK Donn in Kristiansand.

Anders Lange broke his nose several times during play, giving him his characteristic crooked nose.

Anders Lange held his first public speech, the Kristiansand russ speech, on 17 May 1924 in honour of Henrik Wergeland.

Anders Lange thereafter served in the Royal Guards for his conscription service.

Anders Lange graduated as a forestry technician at the Oddernes forestry school in 1926.

Anders Lange had part of his practice in Andebu, and after graduating he continued working there for a local farmer.

Anders Lange went to port in Buenos Aires, got in connection with Kristiansand-based Norwegians, and travelled north to Tartagal near the border to Paraguay.

Anders Lange became engaged with the Saco company, and headed a work team of 15 men.

Anders Lange had brought with him football equipment to the country, and he became known by the locals as "Don Andre".

Anders Lange lived in Argentina from November 1927 to June 1929, when he went home with his father's casket, his father having died of a heart attack when visiting Anders Lange at his office in Argentina.

Anders Lange began his political career in the Norwegian right-wing Fatherland League organisation, which had been founded in 1925 by prominent figures such as Christian Michelsen and Fridtjof Nansen.

Anders Lange had read about communism since his youth, and concluded that it was a "poison" that would destroy humans, take away their liberties and relinquish the independence of nations.

Anders Lange had noted the stark political conflicts in Argentina during his stay in the country.

Anders Lange became secretary of the Fatherland League's Agder branch in 1929, and marked himself in the first year by writing op-eds in newspapers and speaking at public rallies.

In early 1933, when Vidkun Quisling was Defence Minister, Anders Lange was scheduled to host him at a public rally that was endorsed by the Agrarian Party.

The event led Anders Lange to get a complete distaste of him.

The stunt led to clashes with AUF activists, and as Anders Lange's stunt had not been approved by neither the Fatherland League's local branch nor its central leadership, Anders Lange was transferred to Oslo.

Anders Lange then held the position as national leader of the Fatherland League's youth organisation from 1935 to 1936.

Anders Lange was considered a great speaker, and his rhetoric changed between being largely gentle or more vulgar.

Anders Lange continued to travel around the country in order to show films and hold speeches.

Anders Lange agitated for strengthening the Norwegian Armed Forces, and increasingly warned against a possible world war, and how Norway could be pulled into it.

Anders Lange was dejected that the authorities did not take him seriously, and left-wing activists continued to disturb his meetings.

Anders Lange travelled to the Norwegian Parliament on 8 April 1940, and begged Labour Party MP Torvald Haavardstad to mobilise the Norwegian army.

Anders Lange managed to reserve 100 seats on the Norwegian America Line for Jews to escape, but none of the seats were taken.

Anders Lange had with him a machine gun and 1,000 bullets, but was forced to turn his weapon in when they met other resistance members.

Anders Lange was considered to be "not reliable" on account of his time in the Fatherland League, and he was left to ski back to Oslo.

Anders Lange became dejected and bitter as a result of his treatment, and he was left to think that the Labour Party, which he had criticised for not arming the defence before the invasion, had now taken over control of Nordmarka.

Anders Lange refused to greet Mehle when he came past his table, responding that "I don't greet Norway's greatest turd in another way than this," and then slapped Mehle in the face.

Anders Lange thereafter grabbed Mehle and threw him through a door twice.

Anders Lange refused to apologise to Mehle, and was captured by German police the following day.

Anders Lange was imprisoned for four months, and was released in early 1941.

Anders Lange's house was searched several times by the Gestapo when he was in prison.

Anders Lange was according to himself not tortured or abused in prison, but to his satisfaction he was left alone to just read books and think.

Anders Lange instead started working as the secretary of Norsk Kennel Klubb, a Norwegian dog-owner's club.

Anders Lange was hired as a columnist in Morgenbladet, writing about the dog community every Monday.

Anders Lange moved to Svartskog, Oppegard with his family in late 1946, where he started working to establish a kennel.

At the time, there were no independent publications such as this for the dog community, and Anders Lange went to great lengths to spread news about his paper.

Anders Lange sent about 75,000 letters to dog owners, institutions and dog associations throughout the country, informing them about the new paper.

Anders Lange maintained that politics were to be "banished" from the paper, except for issues directly related to the dog community; he thus criticised the tax on dog-keeping, and the ban on dogs in Oslo tenements.

Anders Lange thought that the Labour Party government had returned to the pre-war negligence of the Norwegian defence, and that it was a "tactic" by the "communists" in order to allow the Soviet Union to grow itself stronger.

Anders Lange arranged a public meeting at Youngstorget for the first time in 1950, and was thereafter sponsored by an anonymous group to hold one hundred political speeches throughout the country.

Anders Lange stopped touring in 1953 due to financial problems.

Anders Lange had great oratory talents, and he liked to consider himself a "demagogue" in the ancient Greek sense of the word.

Anders Lange planned a massive campaign with public speeches after the 1953 parliamentary election, but he was not able to raise the necessary funding.

Anders Lange largely stopped his political activities until 1959, when he again planned speeches at Youngstorget.

Anders Lange was often encouraged to start a political party during the 1950s, but he did not endorse the idea then.

In 1961 Anders Lange founded the "Independence Party", but he did not register it publicly.

Anders Lange nonetheless questioned if he had become too old, and he initially rejected the idea.

On 8 April 1973, Anders Lange held a public meeting at the cinema Saga kino, which eventually turned into the founding meeting of a new party.

On his first appearance in a political television debate, Anders Lange showed up with a bottle of egg liqueur and a Viking sword he had received from Geirr Tveitt, and his appearance in the debate became a success.

Anders Lange was not a big drinker, but he used egg liqueur during speeches to clear his throat.

Anders Lange finally entered the Norwegian Parliament after the 1973 parliamentary election, together with three other representatives from his party.

Anders Lange set a record of speeches during his first year in parliament, speaking more than any other representative.

Anders Lange was elected into the Consumer and Administration Committee, which he dismissed as a redundant entity.

Anders Lange said he only felt hostility from Kare Willoch, leader of the Conservative Party, whose presence he considered to "fill the room with hate;" Willoch had expressed little respect for Anders Lange before the 1973 election, labeling him as a "mad-man" and agitator without visions.

Anders Lange had originally intended to create a popular movement rather than a political party, and an internal conflict erupted over the nature of the party.

Anders Lange favoured the superiority of the parliamentary group instead of the party organisation.

Anders Lange however continued voicing his opposition against the new development, while Hagen and Almas maintained their views on the leadership and naming issues.

The conflict was not resolved until October 1974, when Anders Lange died of heart failure following a heart attack.

When questioned during the 1973 parliamentary election about who his "political philosopher" was, Anders Lange responded succinctly "Ayn Rand and Milton Friedman".

Anders Lange once bragged about his own potency, and another time spoke about how much moonshine he had consumed in his lifetime, and how terrible it was.

Anders Lange was censored for the use of unparliamentary language.

Anders Lange had several Norwegian friends in South Africa who traded and did business in the country, and who considered information about the country in Norway to be naive and one-sided.

Anders Lange said that he received his information about the countries from numerous Norwegian, American and African magazines.

Anders Lange was on several occasions visited by South Africans in Norway, both friends of Norwegian ancestry and people with central positions in the country, including General Charles Edward More.

Anders Lange met the leader of the Progressive Party, a party Lange praised for being the purest capitalist party in the world.

Anders Lange was impressed with what he saw in the country, including the Bantu chiefs he met.

Anders Lange advocated that Norway should recognize Ian Smith's Rhodesia, an internationally unrecognized state.

In December 1981, Gordon Winther claimed that ALP and Anders Lange had received about 400,000 NOK since 1972.

People who had been close to Anders Lange however rejected that he had received money from the South African government.

Frederik Macody Lund, who had died in 1943, had long considered Anders Lange to be his "adoptive son" as he had no children himself.

In 1949 Anders Lange however started seeing his neighbours' 21-year-old nanny.

Anders Lange filed for divorce from his wife Anne-Marie at the end of 1950, and the divorce was finalised on 18 February 1952.

Anders Lange thus moved from Svartskog, leaving it to Anne-Marie, and planned to marry his new girlfriend.

Anders Lange thereafter met Karin Thurmann-Moe, and they married on 17 June 1952, just two months after they first met.

In late 1952 Anders Lange bought a 22 decare farm with a kennel, Trollstein in Heggedal, Asker.

Anders Lange received financial support to buy the property from a circle around the libertarian organisation Libertas.

In January 1972, Anders Lange unsuccessfully sought appointment as the broadcast manager of the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation.