Enok Motzfeldt

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Jakob Enok Hans Motzfeldt (born June 11, 1888 in Qassimiut , † April 9, 1925 in Narsaq ) was a Greenland state councilor .

Enok Motzfeldt was the son of the hunter Gerhardt Jens Kasper Ulrik Motzfeldt and his wife Tuperna Karen Louise. He married on September 22, 1918 in Alluitsoq Nikoline Agathe Silla Isaksen (1898–?), Daughter of the hunter Kornelius Peter Frederik Isaksen and his wife Cecilie Kathrine Frederikke.

He lived as a hunter in Narsaq. In 1917 he was in the South Greenlandic Provincial elected. By the end of the legislative period in 1922, he only missed the 1920 session, at which he was represented by Jokum Motzfeldt . He died in Narsaq in 1925 at the age of 36 when he fell from a rock and was fatally injured.

Individual evidence

  1. a b Church registers Qaqortoq 1916–1927 (married people, p. 135)
  2. a b Church registers Qaqortoq 1916–1927 (Dead Men, p. 173)
  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) ).