Max Manus

Max Manus

Max Manus (Maximo Guillermo Manus) (9 December 1914, Bergen – 20 September 1996, Bærum) was a Norwegian resistance fighter during World War II.

Max Manus went into the office supply business after the war: in the fall of 1945, he and Sophus Clausen went to the United States to set up contracts for office machines. Together they started the company Clausen og Manus. In the years after the war, Manus also hired people who had been convicted for collaborating with Nazi Germany, among them Walter Fyrst.[Manus did this after internal discussions and was motivated by a wish for reconciliation, as well as professional considerations. In 1952, the company was split into Sophus Clausen AS and Max Manus AS which now distributed Olivetti andPhilips office machines. The company still exists today.

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