Jørgen Vogt

Jørgen Herman Vogt (23 September 1900 – 3 August 1972) was a Norwegian newspaper editor and politician representing the Communist Party. He edited the newspapers Ny Tid and Friheten, served four terms in Trondheim city council and one term in the Norwegian Parliament.

Personal life

Vogt was born in Kristiania as the son of professor of metallurgy Johan Herman Lie Vogt (1858–1932) and his wife Martha Johanne Abigael Kinck (1861–1908). He was the brother of geologist Thorolf Vogt, Norwegian Water Resources and Energy director Fredrik Vogt and economist Johan Herman Vogt. His uncle Ragnar Vogt was a professor of medicine; as was his second cousin, who was named Jørgen Herman Vogt as well. His great-grandfather David Vogt was a politician.

Career

Vogt enrolled as a student in 1919. He also worked as a journalist from 1920 to 1923; during this period he went on study trips to Germany. From 1923 to 1924 he was the editor-in-chief of Klassekampen, the party organ of the Young Communist League of Norway. Around the same time he was on the editorial board of the periodical Proletaren. Vogt subsequently wrote for the Norges Kommunistblad from 1924 to 1927 and Arbeideren og Gudbrandsdalens Arbeiderblad from 1927 until 1929, when he was hired as a journalist in the Trondheim newspaper Ny Tid.