Erik Egede

Daniel Erik Egede (born December 7, 1923 in Narsaq , † July 29, 1967 in Nuuk ) was a Greenlandic shepherd and councilor .

Erik Egede graduated from college and worked from then on as a sheep farmer in Issormiut . After the war he moved to Denmark for further education. After returning to Greenland, he continued working as a sheep farmer and fisherman.

He began to be politically interested and was elected to the Narsaq Parish Council in the early 1950s and then became chairman of the Parish Council. In 1959 he was elected to the Greenland State Council for the first time. In 1963 and 1967 he was re-elected. In 1963 he was elected as a member of the board of directors of Den Kongelige Grønlandske Handel . There were also offices in Grønlandsråd and as regional council representative in the sheep farmers' cooperation committee. In 1967 he was appointed chairman of the Greenlandic Sheep Breeders Association and the Sheep Breeders' Disaster Committee.

On July 9, 1967, he was on his way from Qassiarsuk and Igaliku to Narsaq when his boat collided with an ice floe . As a result of the impact, he was thrown against a flywheel and seriously injured. After first aid in Narsaq, he was flown to Nuuk due to his injuries, where he died just three weeks after the accident at the age of 45. His successor in the Provincial Council was Niels Holm .

He was the son of the shepherd and regional councilor Jakob Otto Kanuthus Egede (1889–1952) and his wife Bolette Else Johanne Debora Kleist (1895–1934). He was a nephew of Gerhard Egede (1892–1969). He was married and had six children, including the future Minister Kaj Egede (1951-2013).

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Church registers Qaqortoq 1916–1927 (Born boys p. 27)
2. ↑ Mindeord over Erik Egede in the Atuagagdliutit of August 3, 1967