Birte Høeg Brask, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Birte Høeg Brask

Danish resistance fighter and psychiatrist

Date of Birth: 23-Nov-1918

Place of Birth: Frederiksberg, Capital Region of Denmark, Denmark

Date of Death: 01-Jan-1997

Profession: attending physician, resistance fighter

Nationality: Denmark

Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius

Birte Høeg Brask nicknamed Trille (1918–1997) was a Danish resistance fighter and physician.
During the German occupation of Denmark in World War II, she became a member of the Danish resistance.
As a communist, after Germany attacked the Soviet Union in 1941, together with her husband Kjartan Munck, she contributed to the first clandestine publications in Denmark.
She went on to collaborate with the writer and resistance fighter Børge Houmann, working as a courier, organizing illegal meetings and contributing to the resistance papers Land og Folk and Ugens Nyt.
Continuing her studies after the war, she became a specialist at the children's psychiatric hospital in Aarhus.
From 1970 until her retirement in 1988, she held the position of chief consultant.
Høeg Brask is remembered in particular for her ground-breaking contributions to autism.