Per Holm

Per Holm (10 January 1899 – 8 September 1974) was a Norwegian football player for the club Sarpsborg FK, and military officer. He was born in Sarpsborg. He played with the Norwegian national team at the Antwerp Olympics in 1920, where the Norwegian team reached the quarter finals.[1] He was capped 17 times for Norway, scoring one goal.[2]

For the Danish Olympic sailor, see Per Holm (sailor).

Per Holm
Personal information
Date of birth (1899-01-10)10 January 1899
Place of birth Sarpsborg
Date of death 8 September 1974(1974-09-08) (aged 75)
Place of death Tune
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
Sarpsborg FK
National team
1918–1926 Norway 17 (1)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only

Being an aviator lieutenant in the Royal Norwegian Navy Air Service, he was held as a prisoner-of-war during World War II. He was first held at Grini detention camp, then in Schokken, Grune bei Lissa and Ostrzeszów in Nazi German occupied Poland, from 1942 until the war ended.[3][4]

He died in Tune in 1974.[1]

References
  1. "Per Holm". Sports-reference.com. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020. Retrieved 9 February 2012.
  2. Søfting, Thomas. "Per Holm". Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation. Retrieved 16 February 2012.
  3. Børre R. Giertsen, ed. (1946). "1657. Holm, Per Leganger". Norsk fangeleksikon. Grinifangene (in Norwegian). Oslo: Cappelen. p. 61.
  4. Tillegg til "I tysk krigsfangenskap 1942–1945". Navnefortegnelse (in Norwegian). Askim: Øvre Smaalenene – Askim boktrykkeri. 1952. p. 15. (a separate appendix to Spenning, Knut Lindboe, ed. (1950). I tysk krigsfangenskap. Norske offiserers opplevelser i Polen og Tyskland 1942–1945 (in Norwegian). Oslo: Gyldendal.)
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