Hans Pavia Egede

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Hans Pavia Niels "Tatta" Egede (born December 3, 1954 in Nuuk ; † January 15, 2018 in Ebeltoft , Denmark ) was a Greenlandic politician , entrepreneur , sports official and honorary consul .

Life

Hans Pavia Egede was the son of the carpenter Jørgen Egede († 1976) and his wife Martha Mølgaard. The policeman Abel Egede (1945-2006) was his older brother. On May 9, 1987, Hans Pavia married his wife Åse (* 1956).

Hans Pavia Egede completed his trade exam in 1973. He then founded an auditing company in 1979. In 1985 he founded the trawler shipping company Egede & Brøns A / S together with Anders Jonas Brøns . This then resulted in Polar Seafood , where Hans Pavia Egede initially headed. He was also the director and chief executive officer of several other shipping and fishing companies. After a short time at Polar Seafood, he was ousted from the company by Jens Kristian Friis Salling . Brøns and Salling later became the richest men in Greenland through the company.

Hans Pavia Egede, who was active as a footballer in his younger years, was also chairman of Grønlands Boldspil Union , the Greenlandic football association, and a member of the board of directors of Grønlands Idrætsforbund . He was also the Swedish Honorary Consul for 33 years , for which he received the Swedish North Star Order as a 1st Class Knight .

He was active as a politician for the Atassut . When Bjarne Kreutzmann , who was previously also with Atassut, founded the Akulliit Partiiat , Hans Pavia Egede stood for it in the 1991 parliamentary election and both were able to move into Inatsisartut , where he stayed until 1995. He later sat again for the Atassut on the Nuuk Township Council for several terms . In 2008 he switched to the Inuit Ataqatigiit .

He was very committed to the development of his hometown, but later moved to Ebeltoft, Denmark, where he died in early 2018 at the age of 63.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Nekrolog by Lars-Emil Johansen on the Inatsisartut page
  2. ↑ a b Torben Lodberg : Grønlands Grønne Bog 1988 . Ed .: Grønlands hjemmestyres informationkontor. Copenhagen 1988, ISBN 87-982902-9-0 , pp. 18 .
  3. ↑ a b c En passioneret og skarpsindig Nuummioq har forladt os (Nekrolog von Asii Chemnitz Narup at sermersooq.gl )
  4. ^ Necrology by Sara Olsvig in ia.gl
personal data
SURNAME Egede, Hans Pavia
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Egede, Hans Pavia Niels (full name); Tatta (nickname)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Greenlandic politician, entrepreneur, sports official and honorary consul
DATE OF BIRTH 3rd December 1954
PLACE OF BIRTH Nuuk
DATE OF DEATH 15th January 2018
Place of death Ebeltoft , Denmark