Ebbe Munck
Hans Ebbe Munck (born January 14, 1905 in Frederiksberg ; † May 2, 1974 in Copenhagen ) was a conservative Danish journalist and during the Second World War in Stockholm contact person of the Danish resistance to the British secret service Special Operations Executive (SOE). As a young man, Munck took part in numerous expeditions to Greenland and worked as a foreign journalist for Danish newspapers in Berlin (1929-1931), London (1931-1935), Spain (1936 during the civil war), Czechoslovakia (1939), Poland (1939) and Finland (1940 in the Winter War).
During the German occupation of Denmark he worked under the guise of a journalist for the Danish resistance in Stockholm as a contact for the British SOE. From 1943 he was also a representative of the Danish Freedom Council in Sweden. In 1943 he campaigned intensively for the rescue of Danish Jews by being accepted into Sweden.
From 1959 to 1967 he was the Danish ambassador to Thailand .
Awards
- Gala team medal
- Royal Medal in Silver
- Dannebrogorden
- 1960: Large Federal Cross of Merit
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Ebbe Munck on Dansk Biografisk Leksikon, accessed November 30, 2016
- ^ John Gilmour: Sweden, the Swastika and Stalin: The Swedish experience in the Second World War . Edinburgh University Press 2011, ISBN 978-0-7486-2747-9 , p. 142
- ↑ Bo Lidegaard : The exception. October 1943: How the Danish Jews escaped extermination with the help of their fellow citizens , Karl Blessing Verlag, ISBN 978-3-89667-510-1 , p. 271
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| SURNAME | Munck, ebb |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Danish journalist and resistance fighter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 14, 1905 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Frederiksberg |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 2nd 1974 |
| Place of death | Copenhagen |