Ludvig Siegstad

Ludvig Kristian Jeremias Siegstad (born February 27, 1873 in Ilulissat , † January 13, 1947 ibid) was a Greenland state councilor .

Ludvig Siegstad was the son of the Danish-born commercial employee Jens Johannes Guldbrand Siegstad (1828-1882) and his fourth wife, the Greenlander Martha Magdalene (1826-1882). He was the youngest child from his father's marriages and his mother was 46 years old when he was born. His first marriage was Else Louise Sofia Kathrine Olsen (1864–1937), daughter of Niels Otto Jens Olsen and Susanne Cathrine, on August 29, 1897 in Ilulissat. After her death, on January 23, 1938 in Ilulissat, he married the widow Benigne Pauline Amalie Salomine Mølgaard, née midwife, for the second time. Johannessen (1904–?), Daughter of Nathaniel Albrecht Nikolaj Johannessen and Lisa Karen Kristine. From his first marriage he had two sons, Johannes Otto Kristian Siegstad (1898–1914), who had an accident in a kayak at the age of 15, and Benjamin Karl Mathias Siegstad (1900), who died after a month and a half.

Ludvig Siegstad worked as a hunter. From 1923 to 1927 he sat for one legislative period in the North Greenland State Council . He died in his hometown in 1947 at the age of 74.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} Niels H. Frandsen: Nogle grønlandske slægter . Forlaget Atuagkat, Nuuk 2011, ISBN 978-87-92554-22-2 , pp. 339 .
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) ).