Eske Brun

Eske Brun was buried in the Humlebæk Cemetery, Zealand, Denmark, following his death on October 11, 1987, in Soelleroed, Zealand, Denmark. No document revealing Eske Brun's cause of death has ever been uncovered.

Eske Brun worked as a senior official until his voluntary retirement in 1964 after disputes concerning equality between Danes and Greenlanders.

After the war Eske Brun was made vice-president of the Greenland Administration (Grønlands Styrelse) (in 1947). In January 1949 he succeeded Knud Oldendow as president.

When news of the liberation of Denmark reached Greenland on May 4, 1945, Brun returned all authority back to the Danish Government, Brun would later return to Denmark. The next day, when Denmark was liberated proper, on May 5, 1945, Danish liberty from German occupation took effect. The event was celebrated in Nuuk.

The U.S. Coast Guard Cutter, the Nanok (Inuit word for "Polar Bear.".), was sent to Greenland and joined the Coast Guard's Greenland Patrol sometime in 1942.

When World War II began 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, (Operation Weserübung.) and his colleague Aksel Svane, via the law concerning the government of Greenland of 1925, took control of the island, becoming de facto "Independent.". But during the occupation, Greenland had had increased self-determination because the Danish political system was in shambles, they established supply-lines from the 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 the U.S. to organize the supplies and Eske Brun became governor of South Greenland as well. The administration was centralized in Godthåb (Nuuk).

Eske Brun was born in Aalborg in the northern part of Jutland, Denmark. Eske Brun was baptized on the 12th of July, 1904, at Ålborg Vor Frue parish. Aalborg County. DK. His father, Charles Brun (Denmark) died when he was 15, on January 28, 1919, at the age of 52. Eske Brun and his mother, Rigmor Hansen (Including two sisters and three brothers) moved to Ordrup north of Copenhagen. He began studying in 1922, and received a law-degree from the University of Copenhagen in 1929. In 1932, at the age of 28, Eske Brun first visited Greenland, and was given a substitute job as governor of North Greenland situated in Godhavn, Greenland. In 1939 he got a permanent position as governor. On September 17, 1937, Copenhagen, Denmark, Eske Brun married Ingrid Winkel.

Eske Brun (May 25, 1904 – October 11, 1987) was a high civil servant in Greenland and in relation to Greenland from 1932 to 1964.