Hans Hansen (politician)

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Hans Lars Johannes Hansen (born July 14, 1890 in Niaqornat , † after 1932) was a Greenlandic catechist and councilor .

Hans Hansen was the son of the head catechist Hans Andreas Jakob Theofilus Hansen (1860–?) And his wife Emilie Bolette Juditha Motzfeldt (1865–?). He was born while his parents were traveling home to Uummannaq from Nuuk . He married on June 2, 1912 in Nuuk Kirsten Helene Frederikke Lynge (1893–?), Daughter of the cooper Lars Christian Rasmus Vittus Lynge (1855–1928) and his wife Vitta Pouline Ane Elisabeth Margrethe Elberg (1860–1930), with whom he had numerous children. His brother Nikolaj Hansen (1892–?) Was married to his wife's sister. Another sister of his wife was married to the artist Stephen Møller (1882-1909).

Around 1910 he studied at Ilinniarfissuaq . Later he was head catechist in Upernavik . There he sat from 1923 to 1926 in the North Greenland State Council . Like all his colleagues and from the northern part of the inspectorate, he missed the 1925 meeting and was not represented. He was then re-elected and represented his constituency for another legislative period until 1932.

Individual evidence

  1. a b Church records Uummannaq 1878–1898 (Born boys p. 23)
  2. ^ A b Niels H. Frandsen: Nogle grønlandske slægter . Forlaget Atuagkat, Nuuk 2011, ISBN 978-87-92554-22-2 , pp. 156 .
  3. ^ Entry in the genealogy database of the museum in Upernavik
  4. Seminariumsstudenten in Nalunaerutit of February 1911
  5. 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) ).