Ernest David Bohr (7 March 1924 – 26 February 2018) was a Danish lawyer and

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player who played for Denmark in the

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Biography

Bohr was born in

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, Denmark on 7 March 1924, the son of

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player and

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Niels Bohr Niels Henrik David Bohr (, ; ; 7 October 1885 – 18 November 1962) was a Danish theoretical physicist who made foundational contributions to understanding atomic structure and old quantum theory, quantum theory, for which he received the No ...

and Margrethe Nørlund. He graduated from Sortedam High School and later became a barrister. He was named after the New Zealand physicist

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, who was a friend of Niels, and after Niels' maternal grandfather. He was the brother of physicist Aage Bohr, and the nephew of mathematician

Harald Bohr Harald August Bohr (22 April 1887 – 22 January 1951) was a Danish mathematician and footballer. After receiving his doctorate in 1910, Bohr became an eminent mathematician, founding the field of almost periodic functions. His brother was the ...

, who played for the Danish silver medal-winning team in football at the

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, which were also held in London. He played Hockey for "Orient" from Kongens Lyngby. After the German

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, the Bohr family elected to remain in the country despite the fact that the Nazis considered some family members as Jews because Ernest's grandmother Ellen Adler was Jewish. Niels believed he could do the most good by staying in Denmark, but in September 1943 he received word that he would be arrested and brought to Germany. The family then fled to

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. Margrethe and the three younger boys remained in Sweden until the war was over. Bohr played

for Denmark in the

. The competition consisted of a group stage in which three groups played each other in round robin fashion, with the top team on Groups A and B and the top two teams in Group C advancing to the semi-finals. Bohr played in two games. In the first game, at The Polytechnic Stadium at

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on 3 August 1948, the Danish team played Pakistan, one of the strongest teams, and was badly beaten, 9-0. In Denmark's next game, on 5 August at the same ground, the team did better against Belgium, fighting back from being 2-0 at half time to lose 2-1. The Danish team came 13th in the completion, drawing its game against France and losing its other three games, and came bottom of Group C. It did not advance to the semi-finals. After returning to Denmark, Bohr qualified as a lawyer in 1949. He married Else Richter, a fellow lawyer, on 7 January 1950. Bohr was Chairman of the Board of joint stock companies Wiltax, Slagelse Dampmølle, and Øxenbjerg Dampmølle og Toldbodmøl, and a board member of A/S Møller & Landschultz and Juliet Fond.

Olympic results

Source: The Official Report of the Organising Committee for the XIV Olympiad
Key: Pld - Played W - won D - drew L - lost GF - goals for GA - goals against Pts - points Source: Ernest Bohr Biography and Olympic results
Key: GP - games played G - goals

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Ernest Ernest is a given name derived from the Germanic languages, Germanic word ''ernst'', meaning "serious", often shortened to Ernie. Notable people and fictional characters with the name include: People *Archduke Ernest of Austria (1553–1595), ...

Danish male field hockey players Danish people of Jewish descent Field hockey players at the 1948 Summer Olympics Niels Bohr Olympic field hockey players for Denmark Sportspeople from Frederiksberg Danish expatriates in Sweden