Sigmund Feyling

Sigmund Feyling

Sigmund Feyling (8 May 1895 – 1980) was a priest who served as a civil servant representing Nasjonal Samling during the Second World War.

He was born in Egersund. He finished his secondary education in 1916, took the cand.theol. degree in 1924, practical-theological seminary in 1926 and was ordained as a priest in the same year. He was appointed as a curate in his hometown in 1926, promoted to vicar in 1929 and dean in 1936.[1]

During the occupation of Norway by Nazi Germany he joined the Fascist party Nasjonal Samling. In February 1941 he was appointed as deputy under-secretary of state in the Ministry of Education and Church Affairs, and his tenure which lasted until 1945 was marked by an endeavor to nazificate the Church of Norway.[2] He issued Liv og lære (1937, reissue 1941), Kirke og stat (1941) and Kirkelig hvitbok (1942).[1]

After the war he worked part time for the Inner Mission in Oslo between 1955 and 1964. He resided in Oslo.[1] He died in 1980.[2]

References

  1. ^ a b c Prester i den Norske kirke og andre teologiske kandidater (in Norwegian). Oslo: Land og kirke. 1974. pp. 68–69.
  2. ^ a b Christophersen, Egil (1995). "Feyling, Sigmund". In Dahl, Hans Fredrik; et al. (eds.). Norsk krigsleksikon 1940-45. Oslo: Cappelen. p. 102. Retrieved 18 July 2015.


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