Victor Mogens

Victor Andreas Emanuel Mogens (16 August 1886 – 17 January 1964) was a Norwegian journalist, editor and politician for the Fatherland League. Pre-war life and career He was born in Bergen, and grew up in Bergen, Trondheim, Kristiania and Holmestrand before returning to Bergen to finish his secondary education at Bergen Cathedral School in 1905. He then went through some years of law studies. He was a journalist in Landsbladet from 1910 to 1911, and was then hired in Verdens Gang where he soon became subeditor. He then edited the periodical Ukens Revy from 1914 to 1921 and his own magazine Utenrikspolitikken from 1921 to 1924, but the latter publication went defunct. He was a journalist in Vor Verden from 1927 and editor from 1929 to 1932. He also edited Norges Næringsveier. Mogens had a parallel career in the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation radio. He started as a foreign news journalist there in 1927, and soon started as a commentator. Some liked him, but many complained about him being biased, and he was pressured to resign in 1936. Among the complainers were the British legation in Norway. Mogens instead started and edited his own publication, Utenrikspolitisk kronikk.