Valborg Hammerich

Valborg Hammerich née Rump (1897–1988) was a Danish philanthropist who in the 1930s established homes for needy women and children. During the German occupation (1940–1945), as a member of the Danske Kvinders Samfundstjeneste (Danish Women's Society Service) she helped to provide food and clothing for those suffering from lack of supplies. Together with other members of her family, from her house on the Hellerup sea front, she served the resistance by ferrying weapons and saboteurs between Denmark and Sweden and helping Jews to escape from the Nazis. Shortly before the end of the war, she established an organization for taking care of children inspired by the International Union for Child Welfare. It later became known as "Red Barnet", the Danish arm of Save the Children.

Biography Born on 10 October 1897 in Copenhagen, Valborg Rump was the daughter of the engineer Johannes Christian Magnus Rump (1861–1932) and his wife Sophie Mariane Elisabeth née Villemoës (1870–1931). In 1918 she married the naval officer with whom she had eight children: Johannes (1919), Karen (1921), Peter (1922), Kai Ole (1924), Paul (1927), Vivi (1934), Else (1936) and Niels (1944).