Egede Motzfeldt

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Egede Abel Haggæus Motzfeldt (born September 2, 1907 in Igaliku ; † unknown ) was a Greenland councilor .

Egede Motzfeldt was the son of Peter Karl Jakob John Jens Motzfeldt and his wife Talitha Bodil Esther Egede. In 1921 he lived as a foster son with his uncle Hans Motzfeldt (1881–1921) in Qeqertarsuatsiaat .

Egede Motzfeldt was a baker by profession. In 1939, he was first in the South Greenlandic Provincial elected. In 1940 he did not attend the meeting. From 1945 to 1950 he was active in the regional council for a second legislative period.

Individual evidence

  1. a b Church registers Qaqortoq 1903–1908 (Born boys p. 16)
  2. Qeqertarsuatsiaat community census 1921
  3. Axel Kjær Sørensen: Denmark-Greenland in the Twentieth Century (= Meddelelser om Grønland . Man and Society. 34). Danish Polar Center, Copenhagen 2006, ISBN 87-90369-89-0 , ( digital copy (PDF; 3.35 MB) ).