Re: Danish Generals
Steen Ammentorp wrote:Hi Mark,
I got hold of Nyholm's file from "Hærens portrætsamling" (Army Portrait Collection). Here is all the photos on him in that collection. I know that you have seen some of them before but nevertheless.
Hi,
I'm the one who's the great-great-grandson, of the Danish Chief of the General Command, general Anders Gjedde Nyholm.
I've read that title, was like we call 'Forsvarssjef' in Norway, that's 'Defence Chief', in English, so he was the highest ranking Danish officer, I guess.
His wife, (in the dark dress, on the black and white picture, that Steen Ammentorp posted), I've done a bit more genealogy-research about.
It turns out she was royal, after King Christoffer II of Denmark and a Jomfru/Virgin of the noble-family Old Lunge.
That line were named Løvenbalk.
And she was after Løvenbalk, after Fog, (her name was Mary Eva Carla Fog), and Foss, and then Foss were after Løvenbalk.
She was my great-great-grandmother, so I guess I'm also royal then.
King Christoffer II of Denmark went back to e.g. the Wilhelm the conqueror, Rollo, Woden(!), King Salomon and King David of Israel, Cleopatra, Charlesmagne, etc.
And her husband, the general, had the Gjedde-name, as a midle name, and 'Gjedde' was also a well known noble-line, even if I'm not sure if this was the 'real' Gjedde-line.
The general had an older brother, Didrik Galtrup Gjedde Nyholm, who was a judge in the mixed courts in Cairo, and later in Hague, in the 'Folkedomstolen', it's called in Norwegian, translating to Peoples Court.
It's the court who judged between Norway and Denmark, about Greenland.
Nyholm was meant to judge, but got sick or died, a few days before the trial, my grandmother, Ingeborg Ribsskog b. Heegard, in Denmark, told me on the phone, a couple of years ago.
Didrik Galtrup Gjedde Nyholm, was nominated for the Nobels Peace Prize, in 1931.
He was the oldest of 13(!) siblings, including the general.
And my grandmother, told me, in the 80's, I think it was, that he was like a father for his younger siblings.
Possibly, because their father Lauritz Christian (L.C.) Nyholm, had the title Master of the Royal Hunt, in Denmark, and the Nyholm-siblings lived on their mother, (Maren Gjedde),'s castle Højriis, in Mors, in Jutland, in Denmark, while the
parents probably lived, I think, (and possibly arranged hunts for the Danish king etc.), at L.C. Nyholms manson(?), Bangsbo, in Frederikshavn, further north on Jylland.
Didrik Nyholm didn't get any children, so I inhereted his memoars, in the 1980's from my grandmother, but she wanted them back, for some reason, in the early 90's.
Together with some photograps, of the general, (like the one on his horse i think, the originals, from the ones posted in this thread), and a card from the Danish king saying he couldn't come to the generals birthday.
The general got two daugters.
One was my great grandmother Karen Margrethe Nyholm, who married my great grandfather Heegaard, a Danish whole-saler, or agent, for two big German companies, (my grandmother told me), in the 1930's after they lived, (for a year?), in Tyrol, after losing a big factory, (Dansk Jernverk in Frederiksverk), to a brother in law.
The other Magna Nyholm married Holger baron Adeler, after the Norwegian sea-hero, Cort Sivertsen Adeler.
They didn't get any children so my grand-mother, Ingeborg Ribsskog b. Heegaard, inhereted them, in the early 1980's.
But is this the main website about the WW II?
Isn't it a bit strange, to write about Danish generals, on an Axis-website?
Anyway, just thought I'd try to update about whay I've found about this general, when I've done some geneology:
http://www.myheritage.no/site-
Best regards,
Erik Ribsskog
http://forum.axishistory.com/viewtopic.php?f=52&t=112310&p=1541083#p1541083