Background
Arboe-Rasmussen was born 5 March 1925 to chief editor of Ekstrabladet Erik Arboe-Rasmussen and wife Alma Louise Amanda née Hansen Fossing and baptized in Christian"s church on the third Sunday after Easter the same year.
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On 5 February 1945 Arboe-Rasmussen was gunned down in Café Brønnum near Kongens Nytorv in August Bournonvilles Passage 1 (at that time named Tordenskjoldsgade). He was brought to the German medical clinic at Nyelandsvej where he died of his wounds the same or the following day. After the liberation Arboe-Rasmussen"s remains were exhumed at Ryvangen and transferred to the Department of Forensic Medicine of the university of Copenhagen.
On 27 June 1945 a memorial service was held for him in the Church of Holmen.
On 29 August 1945 Arboe-Rasmussen and 105 other victims of the occupation were given a state funeral in the memorial park founded at the execution and burial site in Ryvangen where his remains had been recovered. Bishop Hans Fuglsang-Damgaard led the service with participation from the royal family, the government and representatives of the resistance movement.
A memorial plaque at August Bournonvilles Passage 1 commemorates his sacrifice for Denmark. Every year on 5 February the Danish Union of Journalists awards the memorial grant Jørgen Arboe Rasmussens Mindelegat to a journalist trainee at a provincial newspaper.
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Nationality
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Religion
Church of Denmark