Albin Konrad Eines (9 June 1886 – 19 May 1947) was a Norwegian newspaper editor and politician for the Labour and Communist Labour parties. He later became a Nazi, working for Norwegian and German Nazis during the World War II.
In 1920, Eines announced his scepticism towards the Twenty-one Conditions.[7] However, he changed heart and joined the Communist Party when it was split from the Labour Party in 1923.[8] Eines started working in Ny Tid, and edited that newspaper for a short while.[1] He was a delegate at the Fifth Comintern Congress in 1925.[2] In the spring of 1927, Eines took over as editor of the main newspaper of the Communist Party, Norges Kommunistblad.[9] He was absent during the summer, as he was imprisoned (five weeks of detention, without conviction) together with Henry W. Kristiansen, Just Lippe and Otto Luihn,[10] but returned to edit the newspaper in the autumn of 1927 before Christian Hilt took over later that year.[9]
Right-winger
Eines left the Communist Party around New Years' 1927–1928.[2] Already in 1928, he started working for the right-wing newspaper Tidens Tegn.[11] In 1940, Eines moved to the Fascist newspaper Fritt Folk. He also joined the Fascist party Nasjonal Samling (NS). He thus found a position during the occupation of Norway by Nazi Germany, when NS and the German Nazis took over power. In March 1942, Eines was hired as sub-editor, Odd Fossum's second-in-command, on the newspaper Norsk Arbeidsliv. The newspaper belonged to the Norwegian Confederation of Trade Unions where the Nazis recently had usurped full power. In December 1943, he was promoted to editor-in-chief, and he remained so until July 1944.[11]
