Halfdan Rasmussen

He was known for his literary nonsense verse for children and his serious adult writings about social issues and human rights.

In the summer of 1942 he rented a cottage at Engestofte from future Danish Resistance hero Monica Wichfeld, sharing it with journalist Hilmar Wulff and his new wife, teacher Karen Inga Petersen.

[2] Rasmussen joined the anarcho-syndicalist movement at an early age, and from his 20s and on-wards he contributed to the syndicalist weekly Arbejdet ("Work").

In the early 60s, he helped edit and publish the memoirs of revolutionary syndicalist Christian Christensen.

Later on Rasmussen was also active in the Danish anti-nuclear movement, the campaigns against EU membership, and in Amnesty International.