Lars Chemnitz

Lars Hans Jens Josva Chemnitz (born October 26, 1925 in Nuuk ; † November 18, 2006 ) was a Greenlandic politician and teacher .

Life

In 1946, Lars Chemnitz completed teacher training at Grønland's seminarium and continued his education in Haslev until 1951 and then worked as a teacher in Denmark from 1952 to 1958. Then he moved back to Nuuk and worked there from then on. In 1960 he was appointed Vice School Inspector of Qaqortoq . After further training, he was the community school director of the Qaanaaq community from 1964 and moved back to Qaqortoq in 1966.

In 1967 he was elected a member of Grønlands Landsråd for Ilulissat . In the next legislative period he succeeded his cousin Erling Høegh as chairman of the state council. From 1975 he was for Nuuk in the last national council, which was replaced from 1979 by the Inatsisartut . Chemnitz stood for the Atassut party and was elected to parliament. He succeeded in doing so again in 1983. He lost his parliamentary seat in the 1984 elections, but was able to regain it in 1987 and defend it in 1991, before finally retiring in 1995 at the age of 69. From 1988 to 1991 he was the first speaker of parliament. From 1979 to 1984 he was also party leader of the Atassut.

During his political career, Lars Chemnitz was an advocate of moderately conservative and Denmark-friendly politics. He was also a member of the Board of Directors of Grønlandsposten , the Greenland Council , the Foundation Administration of the Royal Greenland Fund, the Executive Board of the Inuit Circumpolar Conference and the Greenland Society , which he chaired from 1985 to 1987. He was still heavily involved in Greenland's accession to the EEC and its subsequent exit.

In 1971 he was made a knight of the Order of Dannebrog . In 1978 he received the Officer's Cross and finally the Commander-in- Chief . In addition, together with Jonathan Motzfeldt, he was the first recipient of the Nersornaat , which he received in gold on May 1, 1989.

In the 1990s he left Greenland and from then on lived in Denmark.

family

Lars Chemnitz was the son of Jørgen Niels Peter Chemnitz (1890–1956) and Vilhelmine Else Kathrine Josefsen (1894–1978). In 1958 in Copenhagen he married the nanny Annie Westergaard (* 1935), daughter of the machine master Børge Michdal Westergaard (1909–?) And the physiotherapist Kirsten Sofie Jerichow (1905–1977).

Web links

• Obituary by Jonathan Motzfeldt in Sermitsiaq .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d e} biography in Dansk biografisk leksikon
2. ^ ^{A b} Mark Nuttall : Encyclopedia of the Arctic. P. 328
3. ↑ Einar Lund Jensen : Det Grønlandske Selskab år 2005 in the 8/2005 edition of Tidsskriftet Grønland (pp. 297–303)
4. ↑ Lars Chemnitz er død at politiken.dk
5. ↑ List of Nersornaat sponsors 1989 (.pdf)