Carl Henrik Clemmensen

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, including Flemming Helweg-Larsen and Søren Kam.

Carl Henrik Clemmensen
Born(1901-03-28)28 March 1901[1][2]
Copenhagen, Denmark[1]
Died30[3] or 31 August 1943(1943-08-31) (aged 42)[2]
Lundtofte, Denmark[2][3]
Cause of deathMurder[2][3]
Resting placeOrdrup Cemetery[2] next to his brother Niels Clemmensen[3]
NationalityDanish
EducationCand. Phil.[1]
Occupation(s)Journalist and editor[2]
Known forMurdered[2] for anti-Nazi sentiment[3]
Spouses
  • Karen Clemmensen (previous marriage)[1]
  • Elsebeth née Jørgensen (married until 1943)[2]
Parent(s)Christian Albert Clemmensen and Fanny née Greibe[4]

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. 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. "Døde Mandkøn" [Deceased Males]. Kirkebog [Parish Register]. 1930-1967 (in Danish). Lundtofte. 1943. p. 289.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  3. 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. 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 IMDb
  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 IMDb
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