Estvan Svend Aage Wehlast

Soon after the funeral the authorities received information that not only had Wehlast contributed very little to the resistance, but also that he and his brother had committed a series of crimes including robbery, and there were demands to remove his remains from the memorial park. Thus on 3 May 1946, one day prior to the first anniversary of the liberation, Wehlast was exhumed a second time, after his father had agreed to pay for his funeral at the local Brønshøj cemetery. Remarkably, a second resistance member to also be removed from the memorial park was the above-mentioned Harald Christensen.

On 9 February 1945 Gestapo attempted to arrest Wehlast and his six years younger brother Egon Frants Albert Wehlast at Smørumvej 60 where they kept a duplicating machine. Wehlast resisted the arrest and was shot and killed, while his brother was interned in Frøslev Prison Camp.

On 30 June 1945 at Vestre Kirkegaard a memorial service was held for him, as well as for executed member of the resistance Harald Christensen.

In 1930 the family still lived there with Wehlast working as an apprentice mechanic at Godthaabsvej on Frederiksberg.

On 1 November 1922 the family moved to Smørumvej 60, Husum.

In 1921 the family lived on the same address, with the father supporting them as a stoker at Carlsberg Brewery.

Estvan Svend Aage Wehlast (15 April 1916 – 9 February 1945) was a member of the Danish resistance killed by Gestapo while resisting arrest.

Estvan Svend Aage Wehlast was born in Læssøgade 10-I, Copenhagen 15 April 1916 as the first of five children to machine worker Holger Wehlast and wife Karen Sofie Frederikke née Andersen and baptized in St. John's Church, Copenhagen the second Sunday after Trinity.