Per Thomsen

{{Short description|Norwegian journalist and newspaper editor}}

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| birth_place = Bergen, Norway

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| death_place = Stavanger

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| occupation = Journalist, newspaper editor

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Per Berle Thomsen (17 August 1905 – 22 October 1983) was a Norwegian journalist and newspaper editor.

He was born in Bergen.

Thomsen was a journalist for Stavanger Aftenblad from 1926 to 1941. He was editor-in-chief for Stavanger Aftenblad from 1955 to 1973.{{cite encyclopedia |title=Per Berle Thomsen |encyclopedia=Store norske leksikon |publisher=Kunnskapsforlaget |location=Oslo |url=http://www.snl.no/Per_Berle_Thomsen |language=Norwegian | accessdate=15 May 2010 }}{{cite encyclopedia |title=Per Thomsen |encyclopedia=Norsk biografisk leksikon|first=Svein Egil |last=Omdal |editor=Helle, Knut |publisher=Kunnskapsforlaget |location=Oslo |url=http://www.snl.no/.nbl_biografi/Per_Thomsen/utdypning|language=Norwegian |accessdate=15 May 2010}}

From November 1944 to May 1945 he was incarcerated in the Grini concentration camp.{{cite encyclopedia |title=15520. Thomsen, Per |encyclopedia=Norsk fangeleksikon. Grinifangene|editor=Giertsen, Børre R.|publisher=Cappelen|location=Oslo|date=1946|page=|language=Norwegian}}

Thomsen died in Stavanger on 22 October 1983, at the age of 78.