Gunnar Haarstad
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Gunnar Haarstad (12 November 1916 – 13 April 1992) was a Norwegian jurist and police officer, a resistance member during World War II, and later head of the Norwegian Police Surveillance Agency for fifteen years.
Haarstad was born in Nittedal Municipality as the son of police sergeant Jørgen Haarstad and Agnes Azora Bordoe.[1] One of his hobbies was sports shooting. He competed at the national competition Landsskytterstevnet several times, winning his junior class three years in a row.[2] In his first senior year he placed fourth. He was also present at the 1937 ISSF World Shooting Championships in Helsinki, where he participated in a shooting competition between the Scandinavian capitals.[3] Among his school friends from Secondary School was Tore Gjelsvik, who took private shooting lessons from him early in 1940.[2] After finishing his secondary education at the Oslo Cathedral School in 1936, he studied law at the University of Oslo, and graduated as cand.jur. in 1941. His first job was as a junior solicitor in Halden Municipality.[1] From 1942 he worked at the police in Oslo.[4] He married Inger Tøger-Lie in 1942.[1]
