Ernst Siegfried Hansen

Ernst Siegfried Hansen (born December 7, 1917 in Bredebro ; † April 1, 1980 in Copenhagen ) was a Danish editor-in-chief and general secretary of the Federation of German North Schleswig, the umbrella organization of the German minority in Denmark .

Life

Ernst Siegfried Hansen came from Bredebro on the west coast of North Schleswig. After passing the Abitur at the German Gymnasium in Aabenraa , he completed his traineeship at the Flensburger Tageblatt and his training at the press school in Berlin. From 1937 to 1944 Hansen regularly wrote political articles for the Nazi monthly newspaper Junge Front . From 1942 to 1944 he was the foreign correspondent of the United Press Services in Paris . In 1944 he returned to Nordschleswig as an editor and worked on the National Socialist Nordschleswigsche Zeitung . Like most of the male members of the minority, he was interned in the Faarhus camp after the surrender , but was released again in August 1945. He returned to Aabenraa and was instrumental in founding the new umbrella organization of the minority, the Bund Deutscher Nordschleswiger, which, in its founding declaration based on the Hadersleben Declaration of 1943, made a declaration of loyalty to the Danish royal family, the Danish people and to the border from 1920. 1945 to 1947 Hansen was general secretary of the Bund Deutscher Nordschleswiger, from 1946 to 1953 editor-in-chief of the newly founded daily newspaper Der Nordschleswiger .

In 1953 Ernst Siegfried Hansen moved to Copenhagen as a correspondent for the North Schleswig-Holstein . In 1957 he became a correspondent for the German Press Agency for Denmark . From 1972 to 1979 he was chairman of the Foreign Press Association in Copenhagen. Ernst Siegfried Hansen was also chairman of the St. Petri School Commission and the St. Petri Church College for many years . During his presidency the complete restoration of this oldest church in Copenhagen took place.

Awards

Publications

Courier home. The game for Schleswig between surrender and Northern program. Deutscher Heimatverlag, Bielefeld 1955.
Thistles along the way. From the occupation of Denmark to the Bonn declarations. Deutscher Heimatverlag, Bielefeld 1957.

literature

Nekrolog in: Volkskalender für Nordschleswig 1981, Aabenraa

Web links

Search for Ernst Siegfried Hansen in the SPK digital portal of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation

Ernst Siegfried Hansen in the history of North Schleswig. (PDF; 1.32 MB) (No longer available online.) Formerly in the original ; accessed on October 5, 2018 . ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.bdn.dk

Homepage of the Church of St. Peter in Copenhagen

Individual evidence

↑ Torben Mayer: The German minority in North Schleswig and the coming to terms with one's own National Socialist past. In: Democratic History. Yearbook for Schleswig-Holstein , Volume 20. 2009, ISBN 3-933862-41-8 , pp. 245–284, here p. 257. ( Online from the Advisory Board for History ; PDF; 1.7 MB)

personal data
SURNAME	Hansen, Ernst Siegfried
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Danish editor-in-chief and general secretary of the Federation of German North Schleswig-Holstein
DATE OF BIRTH	December 7, 1917
PLACE OF BIRTH	Bredebro
DATE OF DEATH	April 1, 1980
Place of death	Copenhagen

[1] Torben Mayer: The German minority in North Schleswig and the coming to terms with one's own National Socialist past. In: Democratic History. Yearbook for Schleswig-Holstein , Volume 20. 2009, ISBN 3-933862-41-8 , pp. 245–284, here p. 257. ( Online from the Advisory Board for History ; PDF; 1.7 MB)