Ragnar Skancke
Norwegian politician
Died when: 57 years 293 days (693 months)Star Sign: Scorpio
Ragnar Sigvald Skancke (9 November 1890 – 28 August 1948) was the Norwegian Minister for Church and Educational Affairs in Vidkun Quisling's Nasjonal Samling government during World War II.
Shot for treason in the legal purges following the war, he remains the last person executed in Norway.Before the war, Skancke was a highly respected professor of electrical engineering at the Norwegian Institute of Technology in Trondheim and a member of the Royal Norwegian Society of Sciences and Letters.
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