Trond Andresen

Trond Andresen (born 30 April 1947) is a Norwegian far-right political activist, Holocaust denier and debater. Trained as an engineer, he was an associate professor of cybernetics at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU). Andresen has a long history of political activism, originally as a marxist-leninist and member of the Workers' Communist Party. From the early 2000s, he became increasingly known for his antisemitic writings, including as an invited regular columnist for the newspaper Klassekampen from 2000 to 2016 and editor of its debate forum from 2008. Andresen left the Red Party in 2009 amid calls for his expulsion from the party over his antisemitic views and has pivoted to the far right, announcing his support for Marine Le Pen in 2016. In 2017 Andresen met with Norwegian neo-Nazi politician Hans Jørgen Lysglimt Johansen, and Andresen said they broadly agreed on what he called the most important questions, including the claim that The Holocaust has been exaggerated. In 2025 Andresen became a member of the pro-Russian Peace and Justice party. Later that year his membership was suspended by the board, which proposed to expel him from the party on account of his "racist activity" directed at Jews. Andresen then left the party before he could be formally expelled.