Category:Birte Høeg Brask

Birte Høeg Brask 

Danish resistance fighter and psychiatrist Brask in 1942
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Date of birth	23 November 1918 Frederiksberg
Date of death	1 January 1997 Aarhus
Place of burial	Mariebjerg Cemetery
Country of citizenship	Denmark
Educated at	Falkonergårdens Gymnasium (–1936)
Occupation	resistance fighter attending physician
Field of work	psychiatry
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Birte Høeg Brask (1918–1997) was a Danish resistance fighter and physician. During the German occupation of Denmark in World War II, she became a member of the Danish resistance. As a communist, after Germany attacked the Soviet Union in 1941, together with her husband Kjartan Munck, she contributed to the first clandestine publications in Denmark. She went on to collaborate with the writer and resistance fighter Borge Houmann, working as a courier, organizing illegial meetings and contributing to the resistance papers Land og Folk and Ugens Nyt. Continuing her studies after the war, she became a specialist at the children's psychiatric hospital in Aarhus. From 1970 until her retirement in 1988, she held the position of chief consultant. Høeg Brask is remembered in particular for her ground-breaking contributions to autism.