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).

Eske

Coordinates: 53°52′37″N 0°23′27″W / 53.876813°N 0.390876°W / 53.876813; -0.390876

Eske is a hamlet in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England. It is situated approximately 3 miles (5 km) north-east of the town of Beverley and 1 mile (1.6 km) north of the village of Tickton. It lies just to the east of the River Hull.

The hamlet forms part of the civil parish of Tickton.

Eske was the ancestral home of the Jackson family, beginning with Richard (1505?–1555). His great-grandson, Sir Anthony Jackson II was a prominent courtier with both Charles I and Charles II Stuart, and is interred at the Temple Church of the Inner Temple in London.

Eske Manor is a mid-17th-century house that was designated a Grade II* listed building in 1987 and is now recorded in the National Heritage List for England, maintained by Historic England.

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Eske (disambiguation)

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