This article needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. Find sources: "Otto Ruge" – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR(April 2014) (Learn how and when to remove this message)
Otto Ruge
Generalmajor Otto Ruge in the summer of 1945
Born
9 January 1882 Kristiania, Norway
Died
15 August 1961(1961-08-15) (aged 79) Oslo, Norway
Allegiance
Norway
Service/branch
Norwegian Army
Years of service
1902–1948
Rank
General
Commands held
Chief of Defence of Norway
Battles/wars
World War II
Norwegian Campaign
Awards
incomplete Royal Norwegian Order of St. Olav Grand cross with collar
v
t
e
Norway and World War II
Key events
Operation Weserübung
Norwegian campaign
Elverum Authorization
Occupation
Resistance
Camps
The Holocaust
Telavåg
Martial law in Trondheim (1942)
Festung Norwegen
Heavy water sabotage
Liberation of Finnmark
Post-war purge
People
Haakon VII
Crown Prince Olav
Johan Nygaardsvold
Halvdan Koht
C. J. Hambro
Carl Gustav Fleischer
Otto Ruge
Jens Christian Hauge
Gunnar Sønsteby
Vidkun Quisling
Jonas Lie
Gulbrand Lunde
Sverre Riisnæs
Josef Terboven
Wilhelm Rediess
Henry Rinnan
Nikolaus von Falkenhorst
Organizations
Milorg
XU
Linge
Osvald Group
Nortraship
Nasjonal Samling
Hirden
Statspolitiet
Sonderabteilung Lola
Otto Ruge (9 January 1882 – 15 August 1961) was a Norwegian general. Ruge was Commander-in-chief of the Royal Norwegian Armed Forces after Nazi Germany's assault on Norway in April 1940.[1]
OttoRuge (9 January 1882 – 15 August 1961) was a Norwegian general. Ruge was Commander-in-chief of the Royal Norwegian Armed Forces after Nazi Germany's...
Ruge (1928–2021), German journalist Gesine Ruge, German canoer Nina Ruge (born 1956), German journalist OttoRuge (1882-1961), Norwegian general This disambiguation...
with the Germans, set for the following day. As a precaution Colonel OttoRuge, Inspector General of the Norwegian Infantry, set up a roadblock about...
resignation was approved and General OttoRuge, seven years younger than Laake, was appointed as commanding general. Ruge was optimistic that at least Trondheim...
commander-in-chief, General OttoRuge, contact Britain to request assistance against the invader. Foley had his own radio transmitter that allowed Ruge to communicate...
Norway 1905–1957 Succeeded by Harald Military offices Preceded by Wilhelm von Tangen Hansteen Chief of Defence of Norway 1944–1945 Succeeded by OttoRuge...
actions while waiting for Allied reinforcements, a tactic on which General OttoRuge relied during his defence of the vital Eastern Norway region. As commander...
the urgent request of the Norwegian commander in chief, Major General OttoRuge, the first element of the force to disembark (the Territorial 148th Brigade...
went into exile in London. Nygaardsvold resigned shortly after the war. OttoRuge was Chief of Defence of Norway from May to June 1940, leading the Norwegian...
was unveiled during November 1949. The presiding officer was by General OttoRuge, who had commanded the Norwegian Army at the time of the German invasion...
prince, the cabinet, Norway's gold and cash holdings, and finally general OttoRuge with staff, escaped through Åndalsnes. Trygve Lie in his memoirs recalls...
Little Norway Henry Rinnan, Gestapo agent, leader of Sonderabteilung Lola OttoRuge, Commander-in-Chief Ludwig Schübeler, priest Arvid Storsveen, resistance...
of the invasion was General Kristian Laake. He was replaced by Colonel OttoRuge on 11 April. Each Regiment had 3,750 soldiers, with 60,000 being the total...
Gerd Ruge (9 August 1928 – 15 October 2021) was a German journalist, author and filmmaker. As a journalist he was associated with public broadcasters Nordwestdeutscher...
minister of foreign affairs Otto Bahr Halvorsen (1872-1923), prime minister of Norway Edvard Munch (1863-1944), painter OttoRuge (1882-1961), general, commander-in-chief...
authorities, including King Haakon, Prime Minister Einar Gerhardsen and OttoRuge. She also drafted an appeal to Stalin, underlining Vidkun's efforts for...
Lillehammer where it encountered the Norwegian Army, commanded by General OttoRuge, and with which it joined forces. Soon afterwards, the brigade was attacked...
and in December the cabinet decided to establish FFI.) In December 1945 OttoRuge resigned as general. In January 1946 Hauge fired then Chief of the Air...
British counter-attack, forced the Norwegian commander-in-chief, General OttoRuge, to abandon Southern Norway and continue the fight from Tromsø. Under...
Hjort was later criticized for this, and a number of officers, led by OttoRuge, chose captivity instead. Hjort was also an active writer in Tidens Tegn...
Helset were given the task of performing military evaluation on behalf of OttoRuge, who was then a prisoner-of-war. Their initiative is regarded as the startup...