Per Holm (10 January 1899 – 8 September 1974) was a Norwegian football player for the club Sarpsborg FK, and military officer.[1] 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.[2] He was capped 17 times for Norway, scoring one goal.[3]

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
International career
1918–1926 Norway 17 (1)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

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.[4][5]

He died in Tune in 1974.[2]

References

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  1. ^ "Per Holm". Olympedia. Retrieved 15 August 2021.
  2. ^ a b "Per Holm". Sports-reference.com. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020. Retrieved 9 February 2012.
  3. ^ Søfting, Thomas. "Per Holm". Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation. Retrieved 16 February 2012.
  4. ^ Børre R. Giertsen, ed. (1946). "1657. Holm, Per Leganger". Norsk fangeleksikon. Grinifangene (in Norwegian). Oslo: Cappelen. p. 61.
  5. ^ 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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