Jørgen Chemnitz (General Manager)

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Jørgen Hans Kristian Gustav Chemnitz (born December 19, 1923 in Qassimiut ; † April 2001 ) was a Greenlandic director , local politician ( Atassut ), sports official , teacher and translator .

Life

Jørgen Chemnitz was the son of the regional councilor and interpreter Jørgen Niels Peter Chemnitz (1890–1956) and the women's rights activist Vilhelmine Else Kathrine Dorthe Josefsen (1894–1978). One of his sisters was the women's rights activist Guldborg Chemnitz (1919-2003) and one of his brothers was the politician Lars Chemnitz (1925-2006). Asii Chemnitz Narup (* 1954) is his niece. On September 5, 1953, he married the women's rights activist Gudrun Chemnitz (1928–2004), daughter of Karl Johan Pavia Chemnitz (1884–1965) and Kristine Margrethe Rosa Julia Høegh (1897–1978). Her father was the brother of Jørgen's father and her mother was the sister of Aage Chemnitz (1927–2006) and Jørgen's uncle John Høegh (1890–1966), via Jørgen, the cousin of the Erling brothers (1924–1993), Ingvar ( 1927–2007) and Oluf Høegh (1927–2018). From the marriage between Jørgen and Gudrun the children Lise (* 1954), Marie Kathrine (* 1955), Nina (* 1956), Karl (* 1957), Jørgen (* 1957), Ellen (* 1959), Poul (* 1961), Knud (* 1962), Kirsten (* 1964) and Per (* 1966).

Jørgen Chemnitz passed the teaching examination in Nuuk in 1944 and that in Haslev in 1950 . From 1950 to 1951 he worked as a teacher in Gentofte and then moved to Nuuk. There he was first vice and then first inspector at Grønland's seminarium . From 1969 to 1974 he was artistic director at Kalaallit Nunaata Radioa . From 1965 to 1969, 1974 to 1982 and 1988 to 1989 he was a member of the Nuuk Township Council . From 1953 to 1965 he was the first chairman of Grønlands Idrætsforbund and himself worked as a football player and skier. He translated the book Footprints in the Snow by David Howarth into Greenlandic ( Tunume Sorssungneĸ ), as Ivars Silis' Nanoq . He was a bearer of the Dannebrog Order . On February 4, 1991, he received the Nersornaat in silver.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Church registers Qaqortoq 1916–1927 (Born boys p. 28)
  2. ↑ Necrologist at information.dk
  3. ↑ a b Torben Lodberg : Grønlands Grønne Bog 1988 . Ed .: Grønlands hjemmestyres informationkontor. Copenhagen 1988, ISBN 87-982902-9-0 , pp. 14 .
  4. ^ Gudrun Chemnitz in Dansk Kvindebiografisk Leksikon
  5. ↑ January René Westh: Ordenshistorisk Tidsskrift . Ed .: Ordenshistorisk Selskab . tape 36 , December 2010, ISSN  0904-5554 , p. 20 .
personal data
SURNAME Chemnitz, Jørgen
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Chemnitz, Jørgen Hans Kristian Gustav (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Greenlandic director, local politician (Atassut), sports official, teacher and translator
DATE OF BIRTH December 19, 1923
PLACE OF BIRTH Qassimiut
DATE OF DEATH April 2001