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Jørgen Nørredam
Danish aid worker (died 1965)
Jørgen Nørredam (1920/1921-1965) was a Danish aid worker who died in a plane crash in Tanzania. He worked as a publisher before undertaking overseas humanitarian work for the Red Cross movement and Lutheran World Federation. In Denmark he worked for the Royal Danish Automobile Club, his aid work took him to Austria, Morocco, Congo and Tanzania. He was working in the Mwesi area of Tanzania when his plane crashed, killing him in 1965. The United Nations posthumously awarded the Nansen Refugee Award in 1965.