Jens Kristian Friis Salling

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Jens Kristian Friis Salling (* 1949 in Qeqertarsuaq ) is a Greenlandic entrepreneur .

Life

Jens Salling was born in Qeqertarsuaq as the son of Søren Hansen Salling from Denmark and a woman from Greenland. His father moved to Qaqortoq shortly after he was born and left the family. He died in 1959 when the Hans Hedtoft went down , without Jens ever seeing him. Instead, he grew up with his stepfather, Jakob. In 1977 he met the later politician Augusta Salling (* 1954), whom he married five years later. The couple had two children, their daughter Laila (* 1985), who made a name for herself as a winter sports enthusiast, and their son Bent (* 1988).

He attended school in Qeqertarsuaq and moved to Qaqortoq at the age of 14. After two years he started an apprenticeship at KGH in Sisimiut and Ikast . He then moved back to Qeqertarsuaq and at the age of 21 became head of department at KGH in Sisimiut. However, he could not make friends with his profession and returned a short time later in the summer of 1971 to his hometown to become a fisherman. In 1977 he bought his first larger fishing boat. In 1985 he became a co-owner of Polar Seafood . Anders Jonas Brøns and Hans Pavia Egede had founded the company the year before. In 1994 Salling and Brøns Hans Pavia took over Egedes' share and then ran the company as a couple. After the death of his business partner in 2018, Jens Salling alone is the richest Greenlander with a fortune of around 1.4 billion kroner (around 200 million euros) and thus in the top 100 of the richest Danes. On August 15, 2012 he received the Nersornaat in silver.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Jens Salling: Penge betyder old in the Sermitsiaq
  2. ↑ Støt course named 30 år at ga.gl (.pdf)
  3. ↑ Havets mand har stadig due fart på: 67-year old Jens Sallings jolle can sejle 120 km / t in the Berlingske
  4. ↑ 89. Jens Salling, Polar Seafood Greenland, 1.4 mia. kr. in the Berlingske
  5. ↑ Tildelingen af ​​Nersornaat i sølv til Jens Kristian Friis Salling on the Inatsisartut page
personal data
SURNAME Salling, Jens Kristian Friis
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Greenlandic entrepreneur
DATE OF BIRTH 1949
PLACE OF BIRTH Qeqertarsuaq