Jørgen Haagen Schmith

Jørgen Haagen Schmith

Jørgen Haagen Schmith (born December 18, 1910 , † October 15, 1944 Gentofte ) was a Danish resistance fighter in World War II , who had the code name Lemon . He was a member of the Holger Danske group and carried out spectacular actions together with his friend Bent Faurschou-Hviid , known as Flamme .

Before the war he was employed by a theater in Copenhagen . From 1942 he worked in a Citroën factory in Copenhagen's southern harbor, where he single-handedly began to damage German vehicles. In 1943 he got in touch with a resistance group, which quickly gained confidence in him. He joined them and received his code name Citronen in connection with a sabotage action at Citroën in which seven German vehicles were destroyed.

From October 1943 he spent a few months in Sweden . After his return he started working with Flamme . Together they liquidated people who were suspected of betraying members of the resistance to the Germans. Schmith also organized escape routes to Sweden.

On September 19, 1944, Citronen disguised himself as a Danish police officer. Unfortunately, the Danish police were arrested on the same day, so he was arrested, too, without being recognized, but managed to escape injured.

Jørgen Haagen Schmith died after a violent exchange of fire that lasted for hours when the Gestapo tried on October 15, 1944 to break into the apartment in Jægersborg Allé north of Copenhagen, where he had his sick bed.

The incidents around flames and lemons were filmed in 2007/2008 in the film Days of Anger with Mads Mikkelsen in the role of Jørgen Haagen Schmith.

The Lemon Fjord in Pearyland in northern Greenland was named after Jørgen Haagen Schmith by Eigil Knuth .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Modstandskampens altmuligmand website of the National Museum of Denmark, accessed on April 20, 2012.
2. ↑ Flammen og Citronens sidste kamp website of the National Museum of Denmark, accessed on April 20, 2012.
3. ↑ East Greenlandic toponyms published by the Arctic Institute (.pdf)