In 1933, Quisling left the Farmers’ Party and founded the fascist Nasjonal Samling (National Union). He returned to Norway in 1929 and served as Minister of Defence in the governments of Peder Kolstad (1931–32) and Jens Hundseid (1932–33) in representing the Farmers’ Party. He was posted as a Norwegian diplomat to the Soviet Union and for some time also managed British diplomatic affairs there.
He first came to international prominence as a close collaborator of the explorer Fridtjof Nansen, and through organising humanitarian relief during the Russian famine of 1921 in Povolzhye. Vidkun Abraham Lauritz Jonssøn Quisling was a Norwegian military officer, politician and Nazi collaborator who nominally headed the government of Norway during the country’s occupation by Nazi Germany during World War II. The term “quisling” has become a byword for “collaborator” or “traitor” in several languages. Photo courtesy National Archives of Norway, Wikimedia Commons Norwegian Minister President Vidkun Quisling in civilian clothes.
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