Jan Svendsen (politician)

Jakob Jan Hans Svendsen (born July 7, 1861 in Upernavik , † February 7, 1928 in Aappilattoq ) was a Greenlandic catechist and councilor .

Jan Svendsen was the son of the sailor Peter Hendrik Ole Svendsen (1834-1891) and his wife Magdalene Frederikke Møller (1843-1924), who was the daughter of a Dane. Jan Svendsen married on November 4, 1883 in Upernavik Karen Martha Kristine Elberg (1866–?), Daughter of the Danish colonial administrator Niss Lauritz Elberg (1843–1885) and his wife Emma Maren Louise Vilhelmine Broberg (1835–1902), who are also mostly Danish Descent was. Five children were born from the marriage.

Jan Svendsen was employed as a catechist in Aappilattoq in 1881. He also worked as a hunter. 1911 in the first North Greenlandic Landesrat selected. He did not attend the session in 1914 and resigned after the end of the legislative period in 1916. He died in 1928 at the age of 67 when he drowned with his youngest daughter.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Entry in the genealogy database of the museum in Upernavik
2. ↑ Church employees in Palaseqarfik Upernavik in Nalunaerutit from December 1906
3. ↑ Axel Kjær Sørensen: Denmark-Greenland in the Twentieth Century (= Meddelelser om Grønland . Man and Society. 34). Danish Polar Center, Copenhagen 2006, ISBN 87-90369-89-0 , ( digital copy (PDF; 3.35 MB) ).
4. ↑ Nekrolog in the Avangnâmioĸ of February 1928