Lars Karl Jensen

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Lars Karl Jensen (born December 31, 1949 in Qeqertarsuaq ) is a Greenlandic politician ( Siumut ), sailor , teacher and author .

He is the son of the fisherman Peter Jensen († 1956) and his wife Juliane Hansen. On June 25, 1972, he married the office assistant Susanne Siegstad (* 1950).

From 1964 to 1970 he worked as a seaman and chamberlain for Den Kongelige Grønlandske Handel . In 1971 he completed a one-year training course at the skipper school in Nuuk and then worked for four years as a helmsman. He then became an assistant at the school and was a subject teacher there from 1977 to 1980. He switched to the fishing school in Paamiut and was a departmental teacher from 1980 to 1981, then a school inspector for a year and headmaster since 1982.

He was elected to Inatsisartut in 1995 and re-elected in 1999. From 2001 to 2005 he was mayor of Qeqertarsuaq Municipality . In June 2005 he became chairman of KANUKOKA , the Greenlandic community association. He gave up the post to Karl Lyberth in April 2006 after a cerebral hemorrhage , but returned to the post in July and resigned for good in May 2007.

Literary works

  • Avataasiortut (2011)
  • Nalaatat oqaluasaarsiallu (2012)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Torben Lodberg: Grønlands Grønne Bog 1988 . Ed .: Grønlands hjemmestyres informationkontor. Copenhagen 1988, ISBN 87-982902-9-0 , pp. 36 .
  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. ↑ Augusta Salling borgmester i Qeqertarsuaq at knr.gl
  4. ↑ Ny formand til KANUKOKA at knr.gl
  5. ↑ Karl Lyberth fortsätter i spidsen for Kanukoka at knr.gl
  6. ↑ KANUKOKA's formand tilbage i formandsstolen at knr.gl
  7. ↑ Ny formand i KANUKOKA at knr.gl
personal data
SURNAME Jensen, Lars Karl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Greenlandic politician (Siumut), sailor, teacher and author
DATE OF BIRTH December 31, 1949
PLACE OF BIRTH Qeqertarsuaq