Aqqaluk Lynge

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Aqqaluk Knud Lynge [ ˈɑqːaluk knuð ˈløŋə ] (according to the old spelling Arĸaluk ; born October 12, 1947 in Aasiaat ) is a Greenlandic politician ( Inuit Ataqatigiit ), writer and journalist .

Life

Aqqaluk Lynge attended primary school in Aasiaat from 1954 to 1961 and then a school on Lolland until 1962 . He then went to school in Nuuk until 1966 and then to the grammar school in Birkerød , which he graduated in 1969. He broke off a subsequent study in social sciences at the University of Copenhagen in 1972, but did so until 1976 at Den Sociale Højskole i København . From 1970 to 1974 he held a board seat in a Greenlandic student association in Copenhagen. From 1974 to 1976 he was chairman of the Kalaallit Inuusuttut Ataqatigiit ( German  community of young Greenlanders). In the same year he co-founded the traditional Aasivik summer camp .

After graduating, he worked as a social advisor for the community of Aasiaat until 1980 . From 1979 to 1980 he was also a teacher at the social pedagogy college in Aasiaat. From 1980 to 1984 he worked as a program secretary and journalist at KNR . In 1983 he was first elected to Inatsisartut for the Inuit Ataqatigiit (IA) party, which he himself co-founded in 1976 , and stayed there until 1995. He was vice-chairman from 1976 to 1980 and then chairman until 1992. From 1983 to 1991 he was a member of the Danish-Greenland Mineral Resource Council. From 1984 to 1987 he was Minister for Social Affairs and Housing. After 1987 he was given the technology and environment departments, but the IA left the government the following year. From 1984 to 1988 he was also vice chairman. From 1985 to 1995 he was a member of the supervisory board of Nuna Bank . From 1991 to 1992 he was chairman of the finance committee and until 1995 vice chairman and chairman of the committee for security and foreign affairs. From 1988 to 1992 he was vice-chairman of the Inuit Circumpolar Conference , where he had been a council member since 1980, and then until 1995 a member of the supervisory board of KNI . Then he was ICC vice chairman for another two years before he was appointed first chairman in 1997, but gave up this chairmanship again in 2002 because he was again in the Inatsisartut from then until 2005, although he remained Greenland chairman of the ICC. From 1996 to 2002 he was Greenland's representative at the Arctic Council . From 2005 to 2007 he was a member for Europe and the Arctic in the Permanent Forum on Indigenous Affairs of the United Nations .

In addition to his political career, Aqqaluk Lynge is also a poet and writer, as whom he published several works.

On October 3, 1991, he was awarded the Nersornaat in silver. He has also been a knight since 1994 and a first degree knight since 2004 of the Dannebrog Order .

family

Aqqaluk Lynge is the son of Jens Hans Lynge (1916–1986) and Benedigte Mølgård (1917–?). His father was in Grønlands Landsråd . His grandfather was Frederik Lynge (1889–1957), who was the first Greenlander in the Folketing .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ CV at the United Nations
  2. ↑ a b Jan. René Westh: Ordenshistorisk Tidsskrift . Ed .: Ordenshistorisk Selskab . tape 36 , December 2010, ISSN  0904-5554 , p. 45 f .
  3. ↑ Biography in Dansk biografisk leksikon
  4. ↑ Fire riddere på stribe in the Atuagagdliutit of September 9, 1994 (p. 24)
  5. ↑ Grønlands Martin Luther King kæmper endnu som 70-årig at fyens.dk
  6. ↑ Det lugter ligeså slemt hos jer selv in the Atuagagdliutit of October 16, 1997 (p. 16)
personal data
SURNAME Lynge, Aqqaluk
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lynge, Aqqaluk Knud (full name); Lynge, Arĸaluk Knud (old spelling)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Greenlandic politician (Inuit Ataqatigiit), writer and journalist
DATE OF BIRTH October 12, 1947
PLACE OF BIRTH Aasiaat