Eske Brun, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Eske Brun

Greenlandic politician

Date of Birth: 25-May-1904

Place of Birth: Aalborg, North Denmark Region, Denmark

Date of Death: 11-Oct-1987

Profession: politician

Nationality: Denmark

Zodiac Sign: Gemini


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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 GodthÃ¥b (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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