Per Holm

Norwegian footballer (1899-1974)

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

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]

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

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