The term was coined by the British newspaper The Times in an editorial published on 19 April 1940, entitled " Quislings everywhere " after the Norwegian Vidkun Quisling, who assisted Nazi Germany as it conquered his own country so that he could rule the collaborationist Norwegian government himself.

Another joke was nicknaming the two-krone banknote Quisling, and the one-krone note an usling, hence there were two uslings to one Quisling.

The right-wing of Norwegian politics was embodied in the career of Vidkun Quisling.

The Norwegian national socialist politician Vidkun Quisling attempted a coup the same day, but was met with such strong resistance from the people that Nazi Germany deposed him within a week and installed a bureaucratic administration in lieu of a government.

In 1942 this administration was replaced with a semi-independent puppet government headed by Quisling, who was promoted to " minister president " of the " National government " by the Reichskommissar.

The Norwegian pro-German fascist Vidkun Quisling had attempted a coup d ' état against the Norwegian government during the German invasion on 9 April 1940, but he was not appointed by the Germans to head another native government until 1 February 1942.

Vidkun Quisling, the leader of the collaborationist Nasjonal Samling Party and of Norway during the German occupation in World War II, was sentenced to death by firing squad for treason and executed on October 24, 1945, at the Akershus Fortress.

After the Nazi Vidkun Quisling was made dictatorial head of state by the German occupiers during World War II, and introduced a number of controversial measures such as state-controlled education, the Church's bishops and the vast majority of the clergy disassociated themselves from the government in the Foundations of the Church ( Kirkens Grunn ) declaration of Easter 1942, stating that they would only function as pastors for their congregations, not as civil servants.

This was as Vidkun Quisling, who later became leader of Nasjonal Samling, had been a Councillor of State for the party, and later even, the Farmers ' Party had been negotiating with Nasjonal Samling for a coalition government.

The first political position given to Professor Skancke was that of Minister of Labour in Vidkun Quisling April 1940 " coup " government, the latter's attempt at seizing power in Norway following the German invasion of 9 April.

Ragnar Skancke was one of only three Norwegian Nazi leaders to be executed for political crimes in the post-war legal purge, the others being Quisling and Internal affairs minister Albert Viljam Hagelin, all the 35 other people executed having been convicted of murder, torture or systematic informing.

Albert Viljam Hagelin ( 24 April 1881 – 25 May 1946 ) was a Norwegian businessman and opera singer who became the Minister of Domestic Affairs in the Quisling regime, the puppet government headed by Vidkun Quisling during Germany's World War II occupation of Norway.

The result was that Norway never surrendered to the Germans, leaving the Quisling government illegitimate and permitting Norway to participate as an ally in the war, rather than as a conquered nation.

Among those executed was Vidkun Quisling.

The term was taken from Vidkun Quisling, the pro-Nazi Norwegian leader.

Meeting Quisling was central in igniting Hitler's interest in conquering Norway.

On 15 April the Administrative Council was appointed by the Supreme Court of Norway to deal with the civilian administration of the occupied areas of Norway, and Quisling resigned.

After that date the Norwegian partner of the occupying Germans was the fascist Quisling regime, in one form or another.

In early 1933, when Vidkun Quisling was Defence Minister, Lange was scheduled to host him at a public rally that was endorsed by the Agrarian Party ( of which Quisling was a member at the time ).

The German diplomat called on the Norwegians to cease their resistance and stated Hitler's demand that the King appoint Nazi sympathizer Vidkun Quisling, who had declared himself prime minister hours earlier in Oslo, as head of what would be a German puppet government.

In Norway, Vidkun Quisling, head of the government from 1942 to 1945 during the German occupation in World War II, held the title of Minister-President ( in Norwegian, ministerpresident ).

In Oslo, the Norwegian government has left, and Vidkun Quisling becomes the head of the new government.

The Quisling regime continued to use the lion coat of arms, although the emblem of the Nasjonal Samling party on the pattern of the German Nazi Reichsadler was used concurrently as an alternative state insignium.

Haakon went on to say that he could not appoint any government headed by Quisling because he knew neither the people nor the Storting had confidence in him.

After Quisling had proclaimed his assumption of the government, several individuals on the Supreme Court took the initiative to establish an Administrative Council ( Administrasjonsrådet ) in an effort to stop him.

After the Norwegian king and his government fled during the German invasion of the country and the failure of a coup-d ' état by the fascist politician Vidkun Quisling, Hitler appointed a Reichskommissar für die besetzten Norwegischen Gebiete ( Reich Commissioner for the occupied Norwegian territories ) on 24 April 1940.

In addition to professional works on electrical engineering in the 1930s, Skancke also wrote a book on Vidkun Quisling.

In second meeting, four days later on 18 December 1939, Quisling and Hitler discussed the threat of an Allied invasion of Norway.

Vidkun Quisling had spoken of the camp at a speech in Horten on May 25, 1942 as an expression of his outrage of the Norwegian Constitution Day celebration among Norwegian patriots.

Hence, on the first day of invasion, Quisling made a broadcast at the NRK radio station and nominated himself as prime minister.

* Newspaper commentary on the Daily Record article and the inclusion of Quisling ( in Norwegian )

He also ordered Norwegian teachers and school children to attend a Hitler Youth exhibition in Oslo in February 1941, which led to the first school strike of the occupation, and ordered the confiscation of books by authors opposed to Quisling.

* 1942 – World War II: Josef Terboven, Reichskommissar of German-occupied Norway, appoints Vidkun Quisling the Minister President of the National Government.

In 1942 he played the Dutch Quisling in the Powell / Pressburger film One of Our Aircraft Is Missing ( 1942 ) and later played the Chinese Prince Tuan in 55 Days at Peking ( 1963 ).

* Vidkun Quisling, leader of Nasjonal Samling and from 1942 Minister-President of the nominal Quisling regime, named himself Fører.

Vidkun Quisling in 1942.

Norwegian police, controlled by the Quisling government, aided in the capture of Norwegian Jews in 1942.

Prior to the invasion, Vidkun Quisling, the leader of the Norwegian Nazi party known as Nasjonal Samling (" National Gathering "), had tried to persuade Adolf Hitler that he would form a government in support of occupying Germans, although Hitler remained unreceptive to the idea.

Terboven ( seated 2nd from right ) with Vidkun Quisling | Quisling, Heinrich Himmler | Himmler and Nikolaus von Falkenhorst | Falkenhorst.

Terboven nevertheless remained in ultimate charge of Norway until the end of the war in 1945, even after the proclamation of a Norwegian puppet regime under Vidkun Quisling, the Quisling government.

With this legitimized government in exile in England, the occupying Nazis vested de facto power in Reichskommissar Josef Terboven and in the puppet government of Vidkun Quisling.

Seated ( from left to right ) are Vidkun Quisling | Quisling, Himmler, Josef Terboven | Terboven, and General Nikolaus von Falkenhorst, the commander of the German forces in Norway.