Ola Brandstorp

Ola Johan Brandstorp (4 September 1902 – 10 December 1963) was a Norwegian journalist, sports official, politician for the Labour Party and military officer.

In 1923, Brandstrop joined the Labour Party and started working for the newspaper Østfold Arbeiderblad, starting as a subeditor in 1924. He chaired the Østfold District of Workers' Sports from 1927 to 1929, served on the national of Arbeidernes Idrettsforbund, and represented Arbeidernes Idrettsforbund at the Fourth Congress of the Red Sport International in 1928. From 1931, he was an office manager in Arbeidernes Idrettsforbund, and in 1933, he became editor of the monthly magazine Arbeideridrett until it ceased publication in January 1935.

During the war, and the German occupation of Norway, Brandstorp was a member of Milorg. He was also involved with Hjemmefrontens Ledelse. He was arrested by Gestapo but fled to Sweden where he was a secretary in the Norwegian legation in Stockholm from 1944 to 1945. After the war. Brandstorp was hired in the Norwegian Ministry of Defence. He held the military rank of colonel when, in 1947, he became the first leader of Armed Forces' Education and Welfare Corps. He left in 1962 and worked for the Norwegian Armed Forces Museum for a short time before his death in late 1963.

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