Benedikt Thorsteinsson

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Benedict “Bendó” Sara Nanna Thorsteinsson Abelsdóttir (born Kristiansen ; * 1950 in Eqaluit ) is a Greenlandic politician ( Siumut ).

Life

Benedikt Thorsteinsson is the tenth of fifteen children of the important sheep farmer Abraham Terkild Abel Kristiansen (1918–?) And his wife Hanne Malene Dorthea Lise Rosing (1914–?), A sister of Nikolaj Rosing (1912–1976). She is the sister-in-law of the politician Ûssarĸak K'ujaukitsoĸ (1948–2018) and thus the aunt of Vittus Qujaukitsoq (* 1971). Her father was chairman of the sheep farmers' association he founded and was also active as a local politician. She attended high school in Køge , Denmark , where she met her husband, the Icelander Guðmundur "Gujo" Þorsteinsson (* 1949), with whom she has four children, Inga Dóra Guðmundsdóttir, married. Markussen, Súsan Ýr Guðmundsdóttir married. Johnsen, Andreas Þorsteinn Guðmundsson and Eqalunnguaq Abel Kristiansen. They moved to Iceland together , where she trained as an office worker before the couple moved to Qaqortoq in 1984 . She worked as an advisor to the Icelandic consul in Greenland, Pétur Ásgeirsson. Together with her husband, she received the Icelandic Falcon Order in 2019 .

She ran in the parliamentary elections in Greenland in 1995 , but missed the election. Nevertheless, she was subsequently appointed Minister for Social Affairs and Labor. On September 19, 1997, she was fired and replaced by Mikael Petersen .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Gujo og Bendó heiðruð: Hafa Gegnt lykilhlutverki í samskiptum Íslands og Grænlands í hálfa öld at kalak.is
  2. ↑ a b Coming landsstyremedlem er også coming mormor in the Atuagagdliutit of March 16, 1995
  3. ↑ Flateyri fangaði hjarta mitt at bb.is (.pdf)
  4. ^ Parliamentary election results 1995 in the Atuagagdliutit of March 7, 1995
  5. ↑ Otto indkalder det nye Landsting in the Atuagagdliutit of March 14, 1995
  6. ↑ Ud med Benedigte ind med Mikael in the Atuagagdliutit of September 18, 1997
  7. ↑ Growing criticism af socialdirektoratet in the Atuagagdliutit of October 7, 1997
personal data
SURNAME Thorsteinsson, Benedicts
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Thorsteinsson Abelsdóttir, Benedigte Sara Nanna (full name); Kristiansen, Benedigte Sara Nanna (maiden name); Bendó (nickname)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Greenlandic politician (Siumut)
DATE OF BIRTH 1950
PLACE OF BIRTH Eqaluit