Augo Lynge
| Augo Lynge | |
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| Danish Parliament Member | |
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In office 1953 – 30 January 1959 |
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| Greenland National Council Member | |
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In office 1951–1953 |
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| Chairman of the Nuuk municipal councils | |
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In office 1934–1938 |
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| Nuuk Municipal Councils Member | |
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In office 1930–1942 |
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| Personal details | |
| Born |
16 October 1899 Fiskenæsset, Nuuk, Greenland |
| Died | 30 January 1959 (aged 59) Cape Farewell, Greenland |
| Spouse(s) |
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| Children | 7 |
| Alma mater | Nuuk Seminarium |
Augustinus "Augo" Telef Nis Lynge (born 16 October 1899 in Fiskenæsset – died 30 January 1959 in Cape Farewell, Greenland) was a Danish politician, poet, teacher and writer who was the first Greenlandic representative in the Danish parliament and died during the sinking of the MS Hans Hedtoft.
Lynge was born on 16 October 1899 in Greenland and was the son of catechist Pavia Lynge (died 1943) and his wife Bendtea née Hejlmann. He had five siblings.
Lynge graduated from the Nuuk Seminarium in 1921 as a teacher and went on to complete several courses at Jelling College from 1922 to 1923. After that he completed a special course in a school in Copenhagen from 1923 to 1924 before working as a teacher in the Nuuk Seminarium. In 1930 Lynge went on to be a teacher at the Nuuk College, however that same year he entered politics and said goodbye to his teaching career.
Lynge married Qetura Heilmann on 12 July 1925 and had five children by her, his marriage ended in tragedy when Qetura died in 1939 at the age of 38. He remarried on 12 August 1940 with Emilie Lund and had two children by her, they remained married until Lynge's death in 1959.
Lynge started in politics in 1930 when he was elected to the Nuuk Municipal Councils, he however went so far as becoming the Chairman of the Nuuk municipal councils in 1934. He ended his term as chairman in 1938 and also ended his term in the councils itself in 1942. In 1941 he also founded the youth association 'Nuvavta qitornai' which was founded to arouse the Greenlandic youth to greater political awareness and responsibility
Lynge was delegated to Reich's Greenland Committee in 1939 and the periods 1945–1946 and 1951–1953. After that he was elected in 1951 to the National Council and its committee of Greenland until 1953 when he made Greenlandic history. He was however already in 1950 Greenland's leading political personality because of his political thoughts which were dictated by the desire to bring the Greenlanders out of stagnation, poverty, ignorance and disease by developing society to a modern standard in all areas of Greenland.
Lynge along with Frederik Lynge were the first Greenlandic representatives in the Danish parliament of 1953, during this time he also became Chairman of the Greenland People's Educational Association, he held this position until 1955. And he remained a member of the Danish Parliament until his death. In 1952 he became a Knight of Dannebrog.
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