Kaj Egede

Kaj Egede (born March 18, 1951 in Narsaq , † December 11, 2013 in Qaqortoq ) was a Greenlandic politician ( Siumut ).

Life

Kaj Egede was the son of Landesrat Erik Egede (1923–1967) and his wife Helga Olsen. On July 18, 1975, he married Karen Petersen (* 1953).

From 1970 to 1972 he did the Højere forberedelseseksamen at the state school in Aabenraa . He then studied from 1972 to 1975 and from 1978 to 1979 at Den Kongelige Veterinær- og Landbohøjskole in Copenhagen Agricultural Economics and Pet Use . From 1975 to 1987 he was a sheep breeding consultant in South Greenland.

In 1987, Kaj Egede was appointed Minister for Settlements and External Districts in the Motzfeldt IV cabinet. After a year the government was reformed and he became Minister for Fisheries, Industry and External Districts in the Motzfeldt V cabinet . In 1991 he was elected to the Inatsisartut and also reappointed to the government for the same ministries, although he gave up his post in May 1992. He then concentrated on his company, KE-Trading , before being elected to the Qaqortoq Municipality Council in 2005 . After the administrative reform, he was also elected to the Kujalleq Commune Council. He was Icelandic Honorary Consul in Greenland and from 2003 to 2010 Chairman of the Supervisory Board at TELE Greenland .

He died in Qaqortoq at the end of 2013 after serving as a councilor at the age of 62.

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b ^c Torben Lodberg : Grønlands Grønne Bog 1988 . Ed .: Grønlands hjemmestyres informationkontor. Copenhagen 1988, ISBN 87-982902-9-0 , pp. 19 .
↑ ^a ^b Kaj Egede er død in Sermitsiaq
↑ 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) ).

personal data
SURNAME	Egede, Kaj
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Greenland politician (Siumut)
DATE OF BIRTH	March 18, 1951
PLACE OF BIRTH	Narsaq
DATE OF DEATH	December 11th 2013
Place of death	Qaqortoq

[ggb-1] Torben Lodberg : Grønlands Grønne Bog 1988 . Ed .: Grønlands hjemmestyres informationkontor. Copenhagen 1988, ISBN 87-982902-9-0 , pp. 19 .

[sermitsiaq-2] Kaj Egede er død in Sermitsiaq

[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) ).