Carl Jacobsen (Papua New Guinean politician)

Carl Mallesch Jacobsen (died 25 April 1962) was a Papua New Guinean politician. He served as a member of the Legislative Council between 1951 and 1954.

Carl Jacobsen
Member of the Legislative Council
In office
1951–1954
ConstituencyNew Guinea Mainland
Personal details
DiedLae, Papua and New Guinea
8 April 1962

Biography

Jacobsen moved to the Territory of New Guinea in 1932, initially working at the Bulolo Gold Dredging company.[1] After two years he took over a farm near Lae.[1] When World War II started he joined the New Guinea Volunteer Rifles, from which he was seconded to the Fifth Air Force of the United States.[1]

When the war ended, he worked at the Red Cross prisoner of war reception centre in Darwin, before returning to Lae. He sold his Bulae farm and started a new one named Leiwomba.[1] He was also a mason, serving as first Worshipful Master in the Lae Masonic Lodge, as well as serving as the first president of Lae Bowling Club.[1]

Elections to the Papua and New Guinea Legislative Council were held for the first time in 1951. Jacobsen contested the New Guinea Mainland seat and was elected to the new legislature. He did not stand for re-election in the 1954 elections.[2]

Jacobsen died in Lae in April 1962 at the age of 67.[1]

gollark: That's just what the government tells us to keep us complacent.
gollark: Which makes sense, since it's the lizards spying on us from on top of the dome above the hexagonal Earth.
gollark: They just say "but TERRORISM" to shut down any critical reasoning about it and paint anyone who disagrees as *unpatriotic* and *eeeevil*.
gollark: Wikipedia notes misuse of *non-*mass surveillance in past. Spying on everyone and everything they do online will make it worse.https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_surveillance_in_the_United_States
gollark: Oh, this too:- ignoring relevant laws and gathering data anyway until new laws can retroactively allow it- getting around limits on spying on citizens by sharing data with other "Five Eyes" nations and spying on them as foreigners

References
  1. Mr. Carl Jacobsen Pacific Islands Monthly, June 1962, p145
  2. Only Few Seek PN-G Voters' Favour Pacific Islands Monthly, August 1954, p16
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