Background
Clemmensen was born in Copenhagen as the younger brother of Niels Clemmensen and as son of journalist Candidate
Clemmensen was born in Copenhagen as the younger brother of Niels Clemmensen and as son of journalist Candidate
Philosophy. In addition to being a newspaper editor he wrote part of the manuscript for the 1944 comedy De tre skolekammerater. On the same evening or after midnight Clemmensen was gunned down in Lundtofte, next to Lundtofte Airfield by three different pistols firing eight bullets all impacting his head and upper body while he was standing. His body was found the next morning and quickly identified.
On 4 September 1943 Clemmensen was buried at Ordrup cemetery.
The September 1943 issue of De frie Danske proclaimed Flemming Helweg-Larsen and Søren Kam as Schalburg-bandits and his murderers. After the liberation a police investigation pointed to Flemming Helweg-Larsen and Søren Kam as well as a third Steamship-man Jørgen Valdemar Bitsch as the murderers.
Flemming Helweg-Larsen was put on trial and executed, while Jørgen Valdemar Bitsch disappeared and Søren Kam died in 2015 without ever having stood trial for the murder. In 2004 a grandson of Clemmensen Søren Fauli produced the documentary Minister morfars morder (My grandfather"s murderer) in which the daughter Mona appears and in which Søren Kam is interviewed by Fauli.
On 30 August 1943 Clemmensen insulted chief editor of the pro-Nazi publication the Fatherland (Danish: Fædrelandet) Poul Nordahl-Petersen.