Harald Sandbæk

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Harald Sandbæk (born January 6, 1904 in Nørre Nissum , † November 6, 1986 ) was a Danish Lutheran pastor and resistance fighter.

Career

After studying Protestant theology, Sandbæk became a pastor in 1932 in the villages of Hersom, Bjerregrav and Klejtrup (now part of Viborg Kommune ) in Jutland . In 1936 he was a co-founder of the Dansk Samling ( German  Danish Collection Party ), of which he remained as a member until 1949. Then he switched to the Social Democrats . He wrote regularly for the magazine Det tredje Standpunkt .

During the German occupation , Sandbæk was active in the resistance movement, where he was arrested in Hadsten in autumn 1944 after a railway sabotage. He was tortured by the Gestapo but escaped captivity during the British bombing of the Gestapo headquarters in Jutland , which was located in Aarhus University. After his escape to Sweden he became pastor of the Danska brigades .

In 1940 he was a priest for the Danish voluntary battalions in the Finnish Winter War , then pastor for the Danish refugees in Norrköping and priest of the Danish brigade.

Sandbæk was from 1947 to 1949 Secretary General of the Ecumenical Refugee Commission ( German  Ecumenical Refugee Commission ) based in Geneva and from 1949 to 1950 Secretary General of Refugee Aid of the Danish People's Church . He then returned to the community service, first in 1950 in Vigerslev and from 1957 on the Kastelskirken in Copenhagen. From 1962 until his retirement in 1973 he was pastor and provost at Holmens Kirke .

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SURNAME Sandbæk, Harald
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Danish Lutheran pastor and resistance fighter
DATE OF BIRTH January 6, 1904
PLACE OF BIRTH Nørre Nissum
DATE OF DEATH November 6, 1986