Carl Henrik Clemmensen

Carl Henrik Clemmensen
Born (1901-03-28)28 March 1901[1][2]
Copenhagen[1]
Died 30[3] or 31 August 1943(1943-08-31) (aged 42)[2]
Lundtofte, next to Lundtofte Airfield[2][3]
Cause of death Murder[2][3]
Resting place Ordrup Cemetery[2] next to his brother Niels Clemmensen[3]
Nationality Danish
Education Cand. Phil.[1]
Occupation Journalist and editor[2]
Known for Murdered[2] for anti-Nazi sentiment[3]
Spouse(s)
  • Karen Clemmensen (previous marriage)[1]
  • Elsebeth née Jørgensen (married until 1943)[2]
Parent(s) Christian Albert Clemmensen and Fanny née Greibe[4]

Carl Henrik Clemmensen (28 March 1901 - 30[3] or 31 August 1943[2]) was a Danish newspaper editor who was killed by three men of the Schalburg Corps one of whom was Søren Kam.

Biography

Clemmensen was born in Copenhagen as the younger brother of Niels Clemmensen and as son of journalist Cand. Phil. Christian Albert Clemmensen and wife Fanny née Greibe.[4]

In addition to being a newspaper editor he wrote part of the manuscript for the 1944 comedy De tre skolekammerater.[5]

On 30 August 1943 Clemmensen insulted chief editor of the pro-Nazi publication the Fatherland (Danish: Fædrelandet) Poul Nordahl-Petersen. On the same evening[3] or after midnight Clemmensen was gunned down in Lundtofte, next to Lundtofte Airfield[2] by three different pistols firing eight bullets all impacting his head and upper body while he was standing.[3] His body was found the next morning and quickly identified.[3]

Clemmensen was survived by two children, his 13-year-old daughter Mona and his newborn son Peter Winston Clemmensen.[3]

After his death

On 4 September 1943 Clemmensen was buried at Ordrup cemetery.[2]

The September 1943 issue of De frie Danske proclaimed Flemming Helweg-Larsen and Søren Kam as Schalburg-bandits and his murderers.[6]

After the liberation a police investigation pointed to Flemming Helweg-Larsen and Søren Kam as well as a third SS-man Jørgen Valdemar Bitsch as the murderers. Flemming Helweg-Larsen was put on trial and executed, while Jørgen Valdemar Bitsch disappeared and Søren Kam died in 2015 without ever having stood trial for the murder.[3][7]

In 2004 a grandson of Clemmensen Søren Fauli produced the documentary Min morfars morder (My grandfather's murderer) in which the daughter Mona appears and in which Søren Kam is interviewed by Fauli.[8]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 Politiets Registerblade [Register cards of the Police] (in Danish). Copenhagen: Københavns Stadsarkiv. 1 May 1917. Station 5 (Vesterbro). Filmrulle 0005. Registerblad 3274. ID 2006457.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 "Døde Mandkøn" [Deceased Males]. Kirkebog [Parish Register]. 1930-1967 (in Danish). Lundtofte. 1943. p. 289.
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 Høgh-Sørensen, Erik (2013). Drabet på Clemmensen og historien om Søren Kam [The murder of Clemmensen and the story of Søren Kam] (in Danish) (2. revised (after Dansk Dødspatrulje) ed.). People's Press. 223 pages. ISBN 978-87-7137-540-4.
  4. 1 2 Politiets Registerblade [Register cards of the Police] (in Danish). Copenhagen: Københavns Stadsarkiv. 1 May 1893. Station 2 (rest af indre by). Filmrulle 0002. Registerblad 3067. ID 1537755.
  5. ↑ De tre skolekammerater at the Internet Movie Database
  6. ↑ "Fra DE FRIE DANSKEs Løbesedler gentager vi" [From the flyers of the free Danes we repeat]. De frie Danske (in Danish). 23 September 1943. p. 2. Retrieved 21 November 2014. Redaktør C.H. Clemmensen blev myrdet af Schalburg-Banditterne Flemming Helweg-Larsen og Søren Kam
  7. ↑ "Soren Kam: Most-wanted Nazi dies aged 93 a free man". The Independent. 2 April 2015. Retrieved 9 April 2015.
  8. ↑ Min morfars morder at the Internet Movie Database
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