Kristine Raahauge
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Kristine Marie Raahauge | |
|---|---|
| Born | November 26, 1949 |
| Died | February 7, 2022 (aged 72) Kolby Kås, Samsø Island, Denmark |
| Occupations | municipal politician, activist, Eskimologist and writer |
| Notable work | Cultural Encounters at Cape Farewell: The East Greenlandic Immigrants and the German Moravian Mission in the 19th Century (2011) |
| Title | Mayor of the Nanortalik municipality |
| Term | 1993–1997, 2005–2009 |
| Political party | Siumut |
| Children | 3 |
| Awards | Julius Bomholt Prize (2012) |
Kristine Marie Raahauge (November 26, 1949 – February 7, 2022) was a Greenlandic municipal politician, activist, eskimologist and writer. She represented the Siumut party.
Raahauge was born in 1949 into a seal-catching family in the remote village of Ilulissat, Greenland. She was the oldest of seven children.[1]
When she was nine years old, Raahauge and her family moved to the town of Nanortalik. Her isolated home village is now depopulated.[1]
On March 25, 1972, Raahauge married Paul Raahauge, a schoolteacher born in Denmark.[1][2] They had three children Anja, Brit and Axel.[3] In 1976, the family moved to Kolby Kås on Samsø Island, and they both worked at a boarding school where 60 Greenlandic children attended.[1]
Museum career
Raahauge and her husband moved to Nanortalik, where he worked at the local school. She became a member of the Greenland Museums Committee from 1991 to 1995. She was later employed as Director of the Nanortalik Museum until 1993.[2]
Political career
Raahauge was a member of the Siumut political party. In 1993, Raahauge was elected Mayor of the Nanortalik municipality.[4] She served as mayor until 1997.[5]
Raahauge ran for office in the 1995 parliamentary elections and was elected to the Inatsisartut for a term. During her term, she fought against centralisation and to preserve local self-government.[1] She chose not to run again in the 1999 elections.[2]
In 2004, after the resignation of Tage Frederiksen,[6] Raahauge was re-elected mayor with the four votes from Siumut and two from Inuit Ataqatigiit (IA).[5] She served until the 2009 administrative reform, where the number of municipalities in Greenland was reduced to four.[1]
