Christian Michael Rottbøll
Christian Michael "Mik" Rottbøll (born June 8, 1917 at Christiansdal, died September 26, 1942 in Copenhagen) was a Danish resistance man during Denmark's occupation. He was captain of the Special Operations Executive (SOE) in Denmark.
He was born as the son of godowner Henning Rottbøll and wife Gudrun Elisabeth Müller and grew up at Christiansdal and Børglum Kloster in Vendsyssel. He sought after graduation and direction in life, became an elite gymnast, sold in the Life Guards, spent training abroad and even lived for a time as cattle farmers in Argentina
In the fall of 1939 he volunteered for the Finnish Winter War, where he was enrolled in one of the famous ski divisions. After Denmark's occupation, Rottbøll joined the resistance camp, together to England, where he received sabotage training by the Special Operations Executive (SOE). The SOE was to train paratroopers who could be thrown down in Denmark and organize resistance groups. The SOE was to provide the groups with weapons, explosives and communications equipment.
On April 17, 1942, along with telegraphists, Rottbøll was thrown down over Denmark. After some drama, the three succeeded by gathering in Copenhagen, where they had improved radio contacts with the UK. Rottbøll was keen to start sabotage actions against the Germans, but the management of SOE objected. Instead, the focus was on obtaining information about the Germans' movement in Denmark and relaying them. It succeeded near Farsø by getting organized and downcast with several people and a radio. The new operators and appliances led to increased and purely effective illegal communication between Denmark and England.
But the Germans were now putting in direction finders trucks, while at the same time they were given names of approx. 30 people affiliated with an illegal magazine contacted the resistance movement. Some chose to leave Sweden and others were arrested. However, Rottbøll stayed in Denmark, only became destitute. At the German request, he was picked up by the Danish police at his address, Øresundsgade 19, 5th floor (the current Vordingborggade) at Østerbro in Copenhagen. At 6:30 on September 26, police called, Rottbøll came out in pajamas, after which Rottbøll was shot by a nervous Danish policeman. The result was, at Rottbøll, got 12 shots to the head, neck and stomach, most of which were on close teams. A shot in the flash was apparently fired after Rottbøll had died.
Both Land and Folk as well as Frit Danmark believed, at Rottbøll was murdered by criminal assistant Øst. The police even paid a bribe of 300 kroner to the officer. Chief of Police Stamm announced in a daily commander to the entire corps: "For especially expelled spirit presence while searching for parachutists, I paid criminal assistant Øst 300 kr in gratuity."
The people of Vendsyssel were more strongly affected by the incident, which strengthened the local resistance to the occupying power, and a memorial stone was rejected after ham at Børglum Monastery, just as at Børglum Monastery Mill was crossed there which remained there. He was buried at the eastern gable of Børglum Abbey on October 4, 1942.
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