Jens Christian Johansen

Jens Christian Johansen (September 20, 1868 – January 29, 1929) was a Danish land improvement engineer and the Danish honorary consul general in Estonia from 1918 to 1929.

Early life and education Johansen was born in Slagelse, Denmark, the son of Hans Charles Jacob Wulff Johansen (1832–1874) and Christine Marie Johansen (née Hauberg, 1846–1885). He studied to be a land improvement engineer in Copenhagen, and in 1892 he started working in the Vitebsk Governorate. There he distinguished himself as a successful land improvement engineer, and the Baltic German–led invited him to head its Tallinn department in 1901.

Career In 1910, Johansen began working under the , continuing to organize land improvement work. It was only at the end of 1918, after Estonia's de facto independence, that he managed to return to Tallinn. 1925: Cross of Liberty, 3rd class, 2nd class

Family Johansen had three children. His son Karl Adam Johansen (1894–1942) died in the Gulag, his daughter Ingeborg Johansen (1896–1986) was a writer (also under the pseudonym Edith Paider), and his son Paul Johansen (1901–1965) was a well-known historian.