Moses Olsen

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Simon Johansínguaĸ Moses Valdemar Olsen (born June 10, 1938 in Sisimiut , † September 25, 2008 ) was a Greenlandic politician ( Siumut ), journalist , writer , trade unionist and teacher .

Life

Moses Olsen attended secondary school in Nuuk and then went to the University of Copenhagen , where he worked with the Studia humaniora and translation until 1962 . From 1963 to 1964 he studied in Reykjavík . From 1965 to 1968 he was chairman of the Council of Young Greenlanders. From 1970 he taught at Knud Rasmussens Højskole in Sisimiut . In 1971 he was elected to the Folketing , but left in the 1973 election. He was one of the first to call for the decolonization of Greenland and subsequent autonomy within the kingdom. It also caused a scandal when he - on the grounds that Denmark had been interfering in Greenlandic politics for 250 years - actively interfered in Danish politics. From 1973 to 1977 he was head of the secretariat at the hunting and fishing organization KNAPK and then employed as such in the municipality of Sisimiut . From 1975 to 1977 he was chairman of Siumut and then vice chairman until 1990. He also edited the party newspaper. From 1978 to 1979 he was editor of a television newspaper in Sisimiut. In 1979 the first Inatsisartut was elected and he succeeded in entering parliament. He was appointed Minister of Social Affairs in Naalakkersuisut . In 1983 he was re-elected to parliament and then became Minister of Economy, Finance and Housing. When he was re-elected for the third time in 1984, he was Minister of Economic Affairs, but in February 1986 he handed over the department to Hans Pavia Rosing because he took over the Ministry of Industry and Fisheries from Lars Emil Johansen . In 1987 he came back to Parliament and became Minister of Fisheries, Labor and Industry. In the next year, however, the Inuit Ataqatigiit left the government, so that their ministries had to be reassigned, with Moses Olsen again being given responsibility for social affairs and housing. After 1991 he was no longer a member of parliament. Instead, he became a consultant at the SIK trade union .

He published several poetic works, such as Taigdlat in 1974 , Inuit in 1980 or Anersaama pikialaarneri in 1998 .

He was a knight of the first degree of the Dannebrog Order and received the Nersornaat in silver on June 21, 1989 .

family

Moses Olsen was the son of Sivert Otto Annas Olsen (1909–?) And his wife Elisabeth Flavia Dorthe Olsen (1910–?). Through his mother he was a grandson of Provincial Councilor Simon Olsen and a nephew of Jørgen CF Olsen . On July 2, 1966, he married Elisa Arnaq Olsen (* 1943), the daughter of Nikolaj Olsen (approx. 1915–1975) and Maren Johansen (approx. 1915–1969) in Copenhagen. He was a descendant of Peter Hanning Motzfeldt and Anders Olsen .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g Biography in Dansk biografisk leksikon
  2. ↑ Biography in Den Store Danske
  3. ↑ Moses Olsen blev 70 år in Fyens Stiftstidende
  4. ↑ 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) ).
  5. ↑ a b Jan. René Westh: Ordenshistorisk Tidsskrift . Ed .: Ordenshistorisk Selskab . tape 36 , December 2010, ISSN  0904-5554 , p. 56 .
  6. ↑ Church registers Sisimiut 1928–1936 (married people, p. 135)
  7. ↑ 75 år i dag: Elisa Olsen var fødselshjælper for hjemmestyret in the Sermitsiaq
personal data
SURNAME Olsen, Moses
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Olsen, Simon Johansínguaĸ Moses Valdemar (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Greenlandic politician (Siumut), writer, journalist, trade unionist and teacher
DATE OF BIRTH June 10, 1938
PLACE OF BIRTH Sisimiut
DATE OF DEATH September 25, 2008