Personal information | |
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Full name | Sigurd Frithjof Herbern |
Nationality | Norwegian |
Born | Oslo, Norway | 22 November 1900
Died | 18 January 1987 Oslo, Norway | (aged 86)
Sport | |
Sport | Sailing |
Sigurd Frithjof Herbern (22 November 1900 – 18 January 1987) was a Norwegian sailor. He competed, with Øivind Christensen as helm, in the Star event at the 1936 Summer Olympics. [1]
From 1942 to 1944, Herbern was responsible for ' For konge og fedreland' [2] (tr. "For King and Fatherland"), one of the illegal newspapers published during the German occupation of Norway during World War II. He hosted a printing press in a summerhouse on the island of Killingen in the Oslo Fjord. For his pains, he was eventually arrested, together with a number of distributors, by the Gestapo in 1944.[ citation needed]
He was also known for yacht building [3] and for a number of yacht designs. The Norwegian Maritime Museum has a list of Hebern's designs. [4] In the late 1940s Herbern designed the ' Killing ' sailboat, on the island of Killingen (hence the name). The design is a 5.25m-long one-design keelboat. [5] He also designed the Junker 24. [6]