Carl Joachim Hambro (usually C.J. Hambro) (January 5 1885 – 15 December 1964) was a leading politician from the Norwegian Conservative Party. He was a member of the Norwegian Parliament from 1919 to 1957, party Chairman from 1928 to 1934, speaker in the Parliament 1926 to 1933 and 1935 to 1945, and President of the Assembly of the League of Nations delegates 1939 and 1946.

He played a crucial role at the time of the German invasion in 9 April 1940. Being among the few politicians who really understood Hitler's ambitions toward the country. Learning from what had happened to Czechoslovakia in 1938, Hambro was prepared, and managed to organize the escape of the Norwegian king and government before the Germans arrived, delayed by the sinking of the German cruiser Blücher.

In the days after the invation, Hambro worked actively from Sweden's capital Stockholm to correct the image the American journalist Leland Stowe had portrayed of the situation in Norway.

External links

• Short biography of Hambro – From the homepage of user dagwood at ISP www.tdn.com (The Daily News, Longview, WA, USA)
• C.J. Hambro war efforts – From the NorgesLexi internet encyclopedia's Norwegian War Encyclopedia (in Norwegian)