Torben Emil Lynge

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Torben Emil Lynge (born March 31, 1940 in Qaqortoq ) is a Greenlandic politician and teacher .

Life

Torben Emil Lynge completed his teacher training in Jelling, Denmark , in 1966 and then worked for three years in Maniitsoq . In 1969 he became a consultant and founded Grønlands Oplysnings Forbund , where he was secretary from 1971 to 1973. From 1975 he was a teacher in Narsaq and from 1980 school inspector there.

He was vice mayor of the municipality of Narsaq from 1979 to 1980 and first mayor of the municipality from 1989 to 1993. From 1983 to 1984 and from 1987 to 1991 he sat for the Atassut in Inatsisartut . He is an honorary member of the party, but in 2007 he supported the Democrats due to the party's lack of liberalism .

Torben Emil Lynge is the son of the writer, painter, sculptor, composer, catechist and regional councilor Hans Lynge (1906–1988) and his wife Marie Louise Mathilde Lund (1904–1996). His grandparents on the paternal side are the state councilor and catechist Niels Peter Salomon Lynge (1880–1965) and his wife Theodora Ane Sisilie Rosing (1883–1940), and on the maternal side the poet Henning Jakob Henrik Lund (1875–1948) and his wife Karoline Malene Justine Haldora Egede (1878-1979). Torben Emil's older brother is Jørgen Niels Henrik Hans Lynge (* 1937), who was the program director at Kalaallit Nunaata Radioa and is the husband of the politician Laannguaq Lynge (* 1943). He is married to Jensine Joelsen (* 1949), with whom he has four children: Nauja Nørgård Lynge (* 1965), who is known as a writer, as well as Aviaaja Nørgård Lynge (* 1967), Miki Rink Lynge (* 1977) and Qillaq Jaaku Toppiannguaq Lynge (* 1979).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Torben Lodberg : Grønlands Grønne Bog 1988 . Ed .: Grønlands hjemmestyres informationkontor. Copenhagen 1988, ISBN 87-982902-9-0 , pp. 52 .
  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. ↑ Atassuttere skifter til Demokraterne in Sermitsiaq
  4. ^ Family Lynge von Bendt Lynge (1901–1987) (.pdf)
personal data
SURNAME Lynge, Torben Emil
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Greenlandic politician and teacher
DATE OF BIRTH March 31, 1940
PLACE OF BIRTH Qaqortoq