Tobias Heilmann (politician, 1873)

Sivert Tobias Jens Heilmann (born October 9, 1873 in Kangeq ; † September 17, 1940 in Tasiusaq ) was a Greenlandic catechist and councilor .

Tobias Heilmann was the son of the hunter Christian Poulsen Jakob Salomon Heilmann (1846–1877) and his wife Maline Catrine Lovise Birgithe Berthelsen (1850–1902). Through his father he was a great-grandson of Inspector Arent Christopher Heilmann (1781-1830). His maternal grandfather was the poet Rasmus Berthelsen (1827–1901). With his wife Marie Susanne Vilhelmine Berthelsen (1873–1930) he had the following children:

• Niels Hans Karl Lars Heilmann (1898–1899)
• Birgitte Debora Pauline Heilmann (1900–?)
• Niels Nikolaj Abel Rasmus Heilmann (1902–?)
• Bodil Ane Katrine Heilmann married Nielsen (1905–?), Married to Hans Nielsen (1891–?)
• Peter Jørgen Kristoffer Kristian Heilmann (1908-1913)
• Ane Sofie Amalie Dorthe Heilmann married Kleist (1910–?)
• Inger Abigael Rebekka Maren Heilmann (1913–?)
• Jørgen Peter Iver Kristian Heilmann (1917–?)

Tobias Heilmann attended Grønland's seminary in Nuuk from 1891 to 1897 , where he trained as a catechist. He was then transferred to the north, where he was chief catechist at Tasiusaq. He represented Johan Bidstrup in the North Greenland State Council , first in 1918 and continuously after his death from 1920. Tobias Heilmann died in 1940 shortly before his 67th birthday.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} Entry in the genealogy database of the museum in Upernavik
2. ↑ Church officials in the Nalunaerutit of December 1906
3. ↑ 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) ).