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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, one of whom was Søren Kam.

Carl Henrik Clemmensen
Born	(1901-03-28)28 March 1901[1][2] Copenhagen, Denmark[1]
Died	30[3] or 31 August 1943(1943-08-31) (aged 42)[2] Lundtofte, Denmark[2][3]
Cause of death	Murder[2][3]
Resting place	Ordrup Cemetery[2] next to his brother Niels Clemmensen[3]
Nationality	Danish
Education	Cand. Phil.[1]
Occupation	Journalist and editor[2]
Known for	Murdered[2] for anti-Nazi sentiment[3]
Spouse(s)	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]

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