Poul Ib Gjessing [SEP] date of birth
Poul Ib Gjessing
Poul Ib Gjessing (31 March 1909 – 23 June 1944) was a sea captain and member of the Danish resistance executed by the German occupying power.
Biography.
Gjessing was born in Silkeborg on 31 March 1909 to painter Ejnar Gjessing and wife Ane Dorthea Jørgine Hansen and baptized "Paul Ib Gjessing" at home the same day. His baptism was confirmed in Lime church on the third Sunday after Trinity.
In March 1944 the Gestapo made an "incredible number of arrests" including ten arrests
Silkeborg formed in 2006
Notable people Public service.
- Peter Sabroe (1867–1913), was a Danish journalist, politician and children's rights advocate
- Johannes Fibiger (1867–1928) a physician and professor of anatomical pathology, won the 1926 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, award subsequently queried
- Poul Ib Gjessing (born in 1909 in Præstemarken – executed during the Nazi German occupation in 1944) a sea captain and member of the Danish resistance
Notable people Business.
- Lars Larsen (born 1948) a businessman