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Hans Hedtoft

1903 - 1955

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Hans Hedtoft Hansen (21 April 1903 – 29 January 1955) was a Danish politician of the Social Democrats who served as the prime minister of Denmark from 1947 to 1950 and again from 1953 until his death in 1955. He also served as the first president of the Nordic Council in 1953. Hedtoft was married to Ella Gudrun Ingeborg Holleufer. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Hans Hedtoft has received more than 83,576 page views. His biography is available in 26 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 24 in 2019). Hans Hedtoft is the 11,690th most popular politician (down from 11,326th in 2019), the 343rd most popular biography from Denmark (up from 344th in 2019) and the 115th most popular Danish Politician.

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    Languages Editions (L)

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Hans Hedtoft ranks 11,690 out of 19,576. Before him are Josep Sunyol, Élisabeth Marguerite d'Orléans, Ulrik Frederik Gyldenløve, Guilhermina Suggia, Kidnapping of Jaycee Dugard, and Achaeus. After him are Anton Aloys, Prince of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen, Ramón María Narváez, 1st Duke of Valencia, Sophia of Hungary, Abisare, Da Ding, and Aemilia Tertia.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1903, Hans Hedtoft ranks 169. Before him are Diana Vreeland, John Williams, Uichiro Hatta, Ella Maillart, Felice Bonetto, and Corrado Bafile. After him are Gʻafur Gʻulom, Kathleen Lonsdale, Fernando Paternoster, Natallia Arsiennieva, Joseph Cornell, and Barbara Hepworth. Among people deceased in 1955, Hans Hedtoft ranks 96. Before him are Isaak Dunayevsky, Ahmad Qavam, Michele Besso, Erwin von Lahousen, Wallace Stevens, and Otto Gessler. After him are Princess Elizabeth of Greece and Denmark, Sybille Schmitz, Helena Roerich, Louis Leon Thurstone, Karl Hofer, and Guy Ropartz.

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In Denmark

Among people born in Denmark, Hans Hedtoft ranks 343 out of 1,032. Before him are Palle Huld (1912), Hans Wegner (1914), Thomas Kingo (1634), Vilhelm Buhl (1881), Lucile Grahn (1819), and Harald Høffding (1843). After him are Søren Kam (1921), Christian August, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenburg (1696), Olafur Eliasson (1967), Søren Kragh-Jacobsen (1947), Johannes Ewald (1743), and Christina of Denmark, Queen of Sweden (1120).

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Among POLITICIANS In Denmark

Among politicians born in Denmark, Hans Hedtoft ranks 115. Before him are Elizabeth of Denmark, Duchess of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel (1573), Ditlev Gothard Monrad (1811), Dorothea of Denmark, Duchess of Prussia (1504), Caspar Bartholin the Younger (1655), Erik Eriksen (1902), and Vilhelm Buhl (1881). After him are Hilmar Baunsgaard (1920), Prince Aage, Count of Rosenborg (1887), Jacob Brønnum Scavenius Estrup (1825), Viggo Kampmann (1910), Anders Sandøe Ørsted (1778), and William Wain Prior (1876).

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