Karl Olsvig

Karl Emil Kasper Olsvig (born June 15, 1879 in Qasigiannguit ; † December 11, 1957 there ) was a Greenland state councilor .

Karl Olsvig was the son of the sailor Frederik Ferdinand Olsvig (1848-1900) and his wife Johanne Kristine Marie Dorthea Kaspersen (1855-1933). He married on April 27, 1902 in Qasigiannguit Marie Katrine Antonette Petersen (1882-1959), daughter of Pavia Pele Jakob Mikkel Petersen and his wife Augusta Frogsine Mariane. This made him a brother-in-law of the Regional Councilor Julius Petersen .

He was the head of labor in Qasigiannguit. At the meetings in 1930 and 1932 he represented Pavia Jensen in the North Greenland State Council . He died in his hometown in 1957 at the age of 78.

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b ^c Niels H. Frandsen: Nogle grønlandske slægter . Forlaget Atuagkat, Nuuk 2011, ISBN 978-87-92554-22-2 , pp. 224 .
↑ 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	Olsvig, Karl
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Olsvig, Karl Emil Kasper (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Greenland Provincial Council
DATE OF BIRTH	June 15, 1879
PLACE OF BIRTH	Qasigiannguit
DATE OF DEATH	December 11, 1957
Place of death	Qasigiannguit

[nhf-1] Niels H. Frandsen: Nogle grønlandske slægter . Forlaget Atuagkat, Nuuk 2011, ISBN 978-87-92554-22-2 , pp. 224 .

[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) ).