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Place of Birth: Aalborg, North Denmark Region, Denmark
About Eske Brun
- Eske Brun (25 May 1904 – 11 October 1987) was a high civil servant in Greenland and in relation to Greenland from 1932 till 1964. Brun was born in Aalborg in the northern part of Jutland, Denmark.
- His father died when he was 15 and the family moved to Ordrup north of Copenhagen.
- He received a law-degree from University of Copenhagen in 1929. In 1932, at the age of 28, Brun was given a substitute job as governor of North Greenland.
- In 1939 he got a permanent position as governor.
- When World War II started and the connection to Copenhagen (the capital of the Kingdom of Denmark, which Greenland was a part of) was severed, on account of the German occupation.
- Brun and his colleague Aksel Svane, via the law concerning the government of Greenland of 1925, took control of the island.
- They established supply-lines from United States and Canada with the help of the Danish ambassador in Washington, Henrik Kauffmann.
- From 1941 until the end of the war Aksel Svane was situated in US to organize the supplies and Eske Brun became governor of South Greenland as well.
- The administration was centralized in Godthåb (Nuuk). After the war Eske Brun was made vice-president of the Greenland Administration (Grønlands Styrelse) (in 1947).
- In January 1949 he succeeded Knud Oldendow as president. Eske Brun worked as a senior official until his voluntary retirement in 1964 after disputes concerning equality between Danes and Greenlanders.
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