Jørgen Nørredam

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.

Early life and education Nørredam was born in Copenhagen in 1920 or 1921. He studied law at Copenhagen University, graduating in 1949.

Death On 26 February 1965, Nørredam, and three-and-a-half-years old daughter, were killed when the plane they were travelling in crashed; his wife was severely injured and taken to a hospital in Dar es Salaam.