Will Brandt

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Abel Jens Johannes Wilhelm "will" Rasmus Brandt (born February 14, 1865 in Aasiaat ; † November 2, 1921 there ) was a Greenland state councilor .

Wille Brandt was the son of the sailor Jacob Andreas Larsen Brandt (1825–1898) and his second wife Maria Steenholdt (1832–1888). On August 20, 1893, he married Sara Mariane Magdalene Mikaelsen. Wille Brandt worked as a hunter. In 1911 he became the first North Greenlandic Provincial elected, where he remained until 1917th Only in 1915 was he represented by his cousin Abia Brandt . Wille Brandt died in 1921 at the age of 56.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Church books Aasiaat 1855–1866 (Born boys p. 24)
  2. a b Church registers Aasiaat 1920–1928 (dead p. 154)
  3. Niels H. Frandsen: Nogle Grønlandske slægter . Forlaget Atuagkat, Nuuk 2011, ISBN 978-87-92554-22-2 , pp. 16 .
  4. Church registers Aasiaat 1888–1903 (Married people, p. 106)
  5. 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) ).