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{{Short description|Norwegian lawyer}}
'''Jon Asbjørn Vislie''' (8 October 1896 – 9 February 1945) was a Norwegian lawyer who was executed during the [[occupation of Norway by Nazi Germany]].

He was born in [[Oslo|Kristiania]] as the son of educationalist and writer [[Vetle Vislie]] and his [[Scania]]n wife Gerda, née Annerlöv. Jon Vislie married and had two children, and the family had settled in [[Bærum]]. Vislie had taken an education in law, and was a [[barrister]] with access to [[Supreme Court of Norway|Supreme Court]] cases.<ref name=falne>{{cite book|last=Ording|first=Arne |author2=Johnson, Gudrun |author3=Garder, Johan|title=Våre falne 1939-1945|publisher=Grøndahl|location=Oslo|year=1951|volume=4|pages=489}}</ref>

[[File:Minnestøtte Jar (januar 2023).jpg|thumb|A memorial at [[Jar, Norway|Jar]] commemorates Jon Vislie, [[Joar Olsen]], [[Øyvinn Øi]] and others.]]
When [[World War II]] reached Norway in 1940, Vislie eventually became an economic supporter of the [[Norwegian resistance movement]]. He also helped refugees.<ref name=falne/> When the Nazi police leader [[Karl Marthinsen]] was assassinated by the Norwegian resistance on 8 February 1945, Vislie was arrested together with thirty-three others, including [[Carl Ferdinand Gjerdrum (barrister)|Carl Ferdinand Gjerdrum]], [[Haakon Sæthre]] and [[Kaare Sundby]], as a [[reprisal]].<ref>{{cite encyclopedia |last=Ringdal |first=Nils Johan |authorlink=Nils Johan Ringdal |editor=Dahl, Hans Fredrik |editor-link=Hans Fredrik Dahl |encyclopedia=[[Norsk krigsleksikon 1940-45]] |title=Marthinsen, Karl A |url=http://mediabase1.uib.no/krigslex/m/m1.html#marthinsen-karl |year=1995 |publisher=Cappelen |location=Oslo |accessdate=13 February 2009 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20140610003026/http://mediabase1.uib.no/krigslex/m/m1.html#marthinsen-karl |archivedate=10 June 2014 }}</ref> Vislie was immediately convicted by a [[court-martial]], and executed on [[Akershus Fortress]] on 9 February. His body was lowered in the [[Oslofjord]].<ref name=falne/>

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