Henning E. Brøndum
Henning Emil Brøndum (born March 10, 1916 - † May 8, 1947 ) was a Danish National Socialist and collaborator with the German occupying forces in World War II .
At the age of twenty he became a member of the Danish National Socialist Workers' Party ( Danish : Danmarks Nationalsocialistiske Arbejderparti , DNSAP) founded in November 1930 . When the Second World War broke out, he reported to the Waffen SS and was deployed on the Eastern Front and in Yugoslavia . In 1944 he joined the so-called Petergruppe , which carried out terrorist operations on behalf of the German occupying power in which a total of around fifty Danes lost their lives. The name of the group goes back to its German leader Otto Schwerdt , whose code name was Peter Schäfer . After the war, the group was also called Brøndumbande , as Brøndum was instrumental in numerous actions. The compensatory murder of Pastor Kaj Munk on January 4, 1944 and the destruction of the Odinstårnet observation tower in Odense on December 14, 1944 are particularly well known .
Seven Danish members of the Peter group (Henning E. Brøndum, Kaj Henning Bothilsen Nielsen, Ib Nedermark Hansen, Aage Thomas Mariegaard, Robert Lund, Helge Erik Lundqvist and Svend Thybo Sørensen) were sentenced to death in April 1947 and on the night of the 8th executed on May 9, 1947 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Parish Sankt Matthæus (ed.): Kirkebog . 1915-1924. Copenhagen 1916, Fødte Mandkøn, p. 57 (Danish).
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| SURNAME | Brøndum, Henning E. |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Brøndum, Henning Emil (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Danish National Socialist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 10, 1916 |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 8, 1947 |