Author · Denmark
Kaj Munk
Died in 1944
Kaj Munk was born in Maribo, on the island of Lolland, in 1898, the son of a tanner. Orphaned of his father and then, at five, of his mother, he was taken in by a cousin of his mother and her husband, smallholders at Opager, whose name he took. A graduate in theology in 1924, he became the same year pastor of Vedersø, in Jutland, and remained so until his death. He first admired Mussolini, then changed his position in the face of the anti-Jewish laws of 1938 and the occupation, which he openly opposed. A German commando abducted and shot him on 4 January 1944.