Johan Henningsen

Johan Emil Hans Henningsen (born July 9, 1876 in Uummannaq ; † 1952 ) was a Greenland state councilor .

The son of the catechist Johan Peter Henningsen (1852–?) And his wife Wilhelmine Elisabeth Møller (1845–?) Was elected as a hunter in the first North Greenland State Council in 1911 , where he participated in all six meetings until 1916. On January 18, 1903, he married Juliane Marie Gjertrud Fleischer (1880–1959) in Uummannaq. Her daughter was Elisabeth (1907–1993), the first and only Greenlandic Regional Councilor, wife of Regional Councilor Kristian Johansen (1915-1958) and mother of Regional Councilor Severin Johansen (1941-2005) and Prime Minister Lars Emil Johansen (* 1946).

Individual evidence

↑ Church records Uummannaq 1868–1878 (baptized p. 15)
↑ 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) ).

^ Elisabeth Johansen in Dansk Kvindebiografisk Leksikon

personal data
SURNAME	Henningsen, Johan
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Henningsen, Johan Emil Hans (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Greenland Provincial Council
DATE OF BIRTH	July 9, 1876
PLACE OF BIRTH	Uummannaq
DATE OF DEATH	1952

[1] Church records Uummannaq 1868–1878 (baptized p. 15)

[2] 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) ).

[3] Elisabeth Johansen in Dansk Kvindebiografisk Leksikon