Jes Schmidt

Jes Schmidt (born November 10, 1916 in Hjerting near Rödding , † August 1, 1979 in Aabenraa ) was editor-in-chief and head of the German Secretariat in Aabenraa and a politician of the German minority in Denmark .

Life

Jes Schmidt came from Hjerting / Rödding in northern North Schleswig . After training as a journalist, he worked for the Reichs-Rundfunk-Gesellschaft in Oslo in occupied Norway . On his return in the spring of 1946 he was imprisoned in Toftlund, but acquitted on May 23, 1946 by the lower court in Rödding, a judgment that the regional court in Sonderburg upheld in the autumn of that year. From 1946 Schmidt initially worked as an editor for the German weekly newspaper Der Nordschleswiger . In 1953 he became editor-in-chief of this publication, which now appears as a daily newspaper, and remained so until 1979. After the Second World War, Jes Schmidt was particularly involved in rebuilding the organizations and in the politics of the German ethnic group in North Schleswig . From 1947 to 1961 he was chairman of the German Youth Association for North Schleswig and from 1951 to 1979 chairman of the Adult Education Association for North Schleswig, the sponsoring association of the German secondary school in Tingleff . From 1958 to 1974, Jes Schmidt was a member of the city council in Aabenraa as a representative of the Schleswig Party, where he last held the office of 1st Vice Mayor. From 1965 to 1973 he sat as a representative of the German minority in the contact committee for the German ethnic group in the government and parliament in Copenhagen. When the newly founded Party of the Center Democrats offered the German minority electoral cooperation in 1973, Schmidt became a member of the Danish Folketing, a mandate that he held until his death in 1979. After his death, the Jes-Schmidt-Stiftung was founded, which annually awards bequests to young people from the minority who are in training and also annually awards a North Schleswig Prize to people who have made outstanding contributions to youth work in North Schleswig .

voluntary work

• 1947 to 1961 chairman of the German Youth Association for North Schleswig
• 1951 to 1979 chairman of the adult education center for North Schleswig
• 1965 to 1973 member of the contact committee for the German ethnic group at the government and the Folketing in Copenhagen

politics

• 1958 to 1974 representative of the Schleswig party in the city council of Aabenraa, lastly 1st vice mayor
• 1973 to 1979 member of the Danish Folketing elected to the list of Centrumdemokrats (CD)

literature

• Ernst Siegfried Hansen: Thistles on the way . Bielefeld-Bethel, 1957, Deutscher Heimat-Verlag.
• Harboe Kardel: Five decades of my life . Aabenraa, 1970, writings of the local history study group for North Schleswig, issue 22.
• Peter Jessen Sönnichsen: Mirror of the Years - "The German People's Calendar North Schleswig" - A cultural history of the German ethnic group in Denmark . Aabenraa 1993, ISBN 87-90072-00-6 .

swell

• Nekrolog in "Deutscher Volkskalender Nordschleswig" born in 1980.
• Festschrift for the 100th anniversary of the North Schleswig Volkshochschulverein 1905–2005.
• Biography in "Den store danske"
• North Schleswig encyclopedia