Otto Steenholdt

Otto Japhet Sivert David Steenholdt (born September 27, 1936 in Qeqertarsuatsiaq ; † October 20, 2016 in Klarup , Aalborg Municipality ) was a Greenlandic politician , teacher and author .

Life

Otto Steenholdt, who grew up in 1936 in a small hunting village in what is now the Kangaatsiaq district , which has been abandoned since 1979, attended schools in the capital Nuuk from 1953 . He then moved to Denmark, where he trained as a teacher in Vordingborg until he was employed as such in northern Greenland in 1966.

He began to be interested in politics early on and when two political wings formed in the 1970s, the social democratic wing of the later Siumut party and the conservative of the Atassut , Steenholdt sympathized with the latter and eventually co-founded the party. For Aasiaat he sat in the regional council from 1971 and was re-elected in 1975. As a member of the Atassut he also succeeded in moving into the first Inatsisartut and was also a member of parliament in the following six legislative periods. Only after the election in 2002 did he leave parliament at the age of 66 after 31 years. From 1977 to 1998 he was also a member of the Folketing , although no Greenlander sat in the Danish parliament any longer. From 1984 to 1989 he was party leader of the Atassut, but he left the party in 1999.

During his parliamentary term he was a member of the Hjemmestyreudvalgs and the Hjemmestyrekommission from 1973 to 1979 , so that Steenholdt was an active part of the Greenlandic autonomy process. He was also on the Market Committee of the Folketing, the Culture Committee of the Nordic Council , the Municipal Supervisory Board, the Leisure Committee, the Raw Materials Management Committee, the Mineral Resource Council, the Danish-Greenland Cultural Foundation and a supervisory board that served, among other things, the protection of historical monuments and the fight against alcohol abuse.

Otto Steenholdt was a first class knight of the Dannebrog Order . In addition, on June 21, 1989, he received the Nersornaat in silver.

family

Otto Steenholdt was the son of Filemon Steenholdt (1901–1980) and his wife Abelon (i) e (1913–?). His grandfather was the Provincial Councilor Nathanael Steenholdt (1874-1919). The politicians Alibak (1934–2012) and Konrad Steenholdt (* 1942) were his brothers. In 1965 he married the Danish teacher Hanne Surland (* 1942), daughter of Aksel Surland and Inger Remvig. The marriage resulted in two sons and five grandchildren. The family lives in Klarup, Denmark.

Works

• 1997: Tarnima qimakkumanngisaa , dan. Stedet min sjæl ikke vil forlade ( Eng .: the place my soul will not leave )
• 2001: Inuillisimasup ikioqqunera , dan. Eneboerens henvendelse (English: request of a native )
• 2012: Strejflys over mit liv (German: Streiflicht about my life )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ biography at webarkiv.ft.dk
2. ↑ Obituary
3. ↑ Otto Steenholdt he død in Sermitsiaq
4. ↑ ^{a b} Jan. René Westh: Ordenshistorisk Tidsskrift . Ed .: Ordenshistorisk Selskab . tape 36 , December 2010, ISSN  0904-5554 , p. 66 .
5. ↑ Contrary to many sources, the Nersornaat in gold was never awarded to him.
6. ↑ ^{a b c} Biography in Dansk biografisk leksikon
7. ↑ Otto fylder 75 i dag in the Sermitsiaq
8. ↑ Ny bog: Strejflys over with liv in Sermitsiaq