Guldborg Chemnitz

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Marie Guldborg Chemnitz (born January 27, 1919 in Qassimiut ; † 2003 ) was a Greenlandic interpreter , local politician and women's rights activist .

Life

Guldborg was born as the eldest child of the interpreter Jørgen Chemnitz (1890–1956) and the women's rights activist Vilhelmine Else Kathrine Dorthe Josefsen (1894–1978). The general manager Jørgen Chemnitz (1923–2001) and the politician Lars Chemnitz (1925–2006) were her brothers.

Education was very important to her family. When Guldborg wanted to learn the Danish language, she was given to a family in Denmark in 1934, where she got to know their culture and language. From 1936 to 1938 she attended the Efterskole in Aasiaat . At the time, secondary education for girls in Greenland was not very widespread and the girls' school opened two years earlier was reserved for the elite only. In 1938 she was sent to Denmark for further training, organized by a committee that served to educate Greenland women according to European standards. However, because of the Second World War , she was unable to complete her training and returned to Greenland in 1939. Guldborg married on June 7, 1942 the sheep farmer assistant Finn Christoffersen (1915-1990), son of the businessman Hans Peter Christoffersen and his wife Ane Hansine Hansen. The marriage, which was divorced in 1954, had four children: Naja Annie (* 1943), Ejvind Axel (* 1944), Diane Annette (* 1945) and Bjørn (* 1946). Bjørn died as an infant. She improved her knowledge of Danish and in 1948 she was used as an interpreter on the legal expedition , but she also served as a cultural mediator and research assistant. The expedition leader Verner Goldschmidt knew her from her father, who had helped with a radio show about the legal system in Greenland. After the expedition, she got a job at Grønlands Landsret as an interpreter and recorder. In 1958 she became an interpreter in the Society Research Committee headed by Verner Goldschmidt. In 1964 she passed her translation exam - the first Greenlandic woman and the third Greenlander ever. From 1964 to 1968 she was a translator in the Greenland Ministry , from 1968 to 1972 in the Secretariat of Grønlands Landsråd and from 1972 to 1975 again on the Society Research Committee. She was then a consultant with the Women's Association Kalaallit Nunaanni Arnat Peqatigiit Kattuffiat (APK) was, from 1976 to 1979 secretary in Greenland information the federal government and then to 1987 Translator at Reichsombudsschaft .

In 1948 the right to vote for women in Greenland was introduced and in 1951 Guldborg Chemnitz ran for the council of the municipality of Nuuk . She was the first woman to be elected to a local council and stayed there until 1954. She did not run again until 1983 - for Atassut - and was then, among other things, the second vice mayor. She sat on numerous committees.

Together with others, Guldborg Chemnitz published several publications on social science, legal or women's issues, or gave lectures or published articles in newspapers and magazines. Confronted with the women's movement through her mother, Guldborg also worked as a women's rights activist. In 1965 she was appointed to represent Greenland in the Danish Women's Commission, which after ten years brought out four publications as results. In 1975 she was the Greenlandic representative at the UN Women's Conference in Mexico City . She was chairman of the APK in Nuuk and from 1979 to 1982 country chairman.

In 1964 she received the Antoniusprisen, became a knight of the Dannebrog Order in 1987 and received the Nersornaat in silver on September 4, 1998 .

Works

  • 1964: Grønland i udvikling (with Verner Goldschmidt)
  • 1967: Articles about retsplejens vilkår og virke i det grønlandske samfund (with Agnete Weis Bentzon)
  • 1975: Samfund og kriminalitet i grønlandske byområder (with Verner Goldschmidt)
  • 1980: Kvinders liv og vilkår i Grønland (co-editor)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Biography in Dansk Kvindebiografisk Leksikon
  2. ↑ Torben Lodberg : Grønlands Grønne Bog 1988 . Ed .: Grønlands hjemmestyres informationkontor. Copenhagen 1988, ISBN 87-982902-9-0 , pp. 13 .
  3. ↑ January René Westh: Ordenshistorisk Tidsskrift . Ed .: Ordenshistorisk Selskab . tape 36 , December 2010, ISSN  0904-5554 , p. 20 .
personal data
SURNAME Chemnitz, Guldborg
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Chemnitz, Marie Guldborg (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Greenlandic interpreter, local politician and women's rights activist
DATE OF BIRTH January 27, 1919
PLACE OF BIRTH Qassimiut
DATE OF DEATH 2003