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Erik Scavenius

1877 - 1962

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Erik Julius Christian Scavenius (Danish pronunciation: [skæˈve̝ˀnius]; 13 July 1877 – 29 November 1962) was the Danish foreign minister from 1909 to 1910, 1913 to 1920 and 1940 to 1943, and prime minister from 1942 to 1943, during the occupation of Denmark until the Danish elected government ceased to function. He was the foreign minister during some of the most important periods of Denmark's modern history, including the First World War, the plebiscites over the return of northern Schleswig to Denmark, and the German occupation. Scavenius was a member of the Landsting (the upper house of the Danish parliament before 1953) from 1918 to 1920 and from 1925 to 1927 representing the Social Liberal Party. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Erik Scavenius has received more than 125,717 page views. His biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 21 in 2019). Erik Scavenius is the 8,606th most popular politician (up from 9,233rd in 2019), the 238th most popular biography from Denmark (up from 249th in 2019) and the 88th most popular Danish Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Erik Scavenius ranks 8,606 out of 19,576. Before him are Agila I, Honoré III, Prince of Monaco, Domenico Monegario, Elisabetta Gonzaga, Enrique Líster, and Hunald I. After him are Ateas, Yaqub-Har, Christine of Hesse, Juan José Arévalo, Miguel Miramón, and Archduke Anton Victor of Austria.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1877, Erik Scavenius ranks 65. Before him are Oscar Milosz, Frank Marshall, Carlos Ibáñez del Campo, Wilhelm Filchner, Henri Breuil, and Rosika Schwimmer. After him are Ivy Lee, Sigfrid Karg-Elert, Renée Vivien, Sergei Bortkiewicz, James Montgomery Flagg, and Alfredo Guzzoni. Among people deceased in 1962, Erik Scavenius ranks 75. Before him are Sükhbaataryn Yanjmaa, Tod Browning, Enrico Mattei, Henri Wallon, Trygve Gulbranssen, and Milan Vidmar. After him are Mouloud Feraoun, Juan Belmonte, Richard Aldington, Candido Portinari, Charles Galton Darwin, and Erich von Tschermak.

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In Denmark

Among people born in Denmark, Erik Scavenius ranks 238 out of 1,032. Before him are Inger Christensen (1935), Jeppe Aakjær (1866), Gunnhild, Mother of Kings (910), Sidse Babett Knudsen (1968), Ludvig Lorenz (1829), and Niels Holst-Sørensen (1922). After him are Princess Wilhelmine Ernestine of Denmark (1650), Otto Friedrich Müller (1730), Count Ingolf of Rosenborg (1940), Christen Købke (1810), Susanne Bier (1960), and Eugenius Warming (1841).

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Among POLITICIANS In Denmark

Among politicians born in Denmark, Erik Scavenius ranks 88. Before him are Princess Wilhelmina Caroline of Denmark (1747), Princess Caroline of Denmark (1793), Christian August II, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenburg (1798), Charles August, Crown Prince of Sweden (1768), Svein Knutsson (1016), and Anker Jørgensen (1922). After him are Adam Wilhelm Moltke (1785), Helle Thorning-Schmidt (1966), Holger Nielsen (1866), Valdemar the Young (1209), Christian, Prince-Elect of Denmark (1603), and Alexander, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg (1573).

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