Jens Geisler (politician)

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Jens Geisler (born May 8, 1951 in Aasiaat , † February 12, 2010 in Copenhagen ) was a Greenlandic politician ( Inuit Ataqatigiit ), teacher , poet and artist .

Jens Geisler studied in Sorø and attended the teachers' seminar in Hellerup , which he graduated in 1975. In the same year he was employed as a teacher in his hometown and later appointed school inspector.

Jens Geisler co-founded the Inuit Ataqatigiit and in 1979 was the party's first councilor in the municipality of Aasiaat , and from 1983 deputy mayor. In the same year he was elected to Inatsisartut . He was re-elected in 1984, as in 1987, but had to leave Parliament in 1989 because he raped several people, including an underage boy. He was succeeded by Ole Lynge . In addition to his political career, he was also known as an artist and poet.

Individual evidence

  1. a b Torben Lodberg: Grønlands Grønne Bog 1988 . Ed .: Grønlands hjemmestyres informationkontor. Copenhagen 1988, ISBN 87-982902-9-0 , pp. 23 .
  2. Jens Geisler he død in Sermitsiaq
  3. Treatment dome til Jens Geisler in the Atuagagdliutit of November 13, 1989 (p. 6)
  4. 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) ).
  5. Jens Geisler er død at knr.gl