Johan Beichmann

Johan Didrik Schlömer Beichmann KBE (30 May 1886 – 10 February 1966) was a Norwegian military officer, journalist and businessman. A resistance pioneer during the German occupation of Norway, he fled to London and eventually served as head commander of the Norwegian Army-in-exile. Personal life Beichmann was born in Kristiania, the son of judge and civil servant Frederik Beichmann, and writer Edle Hartmann. He was married three times, first to Eva Jacobsen, second to Mona Smith, and third time to Anne Sophie Amalie Troughton. Career Beichmann graduated as military officer from the Norwegian Military Academy in 1907. He studied electrical engineering at the Technische Universität Darmstadt (1908–1908), and graduated from the Norwegian Military College in 1911. He worked as journalist for the newspaper Tidens Tegn from 1911 to 1912. From 1912 to 1917 he headed Infantry Regiment 16, and was also periodically assigned as topographer for the Norwegian Mapping and Cadastre Authority. From 1918 to 1923 he was again journalist for Tidens Tegn, and eventually manager for the newspaper from 1923 to 1933.