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Vilhelm Buhl

1881 - 1954

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Vilhelm Buhl (16 October 1881 – 18 December 1954) was a Danish politician, who served twice as Prime Minister of Denmark, from May-November 1942 during the Nazi occupation of Denmark, and again after Danish Liberation Day from May-November 1945. After graduation and serving as collector of taxes in Copenhagen in the 1920s, Buhl joined the Social Democratic Party, and entered parliament in 1932. In the same year, he became as the Minister of Finance in the cabinet of Thorvald Stauning. At the beginning of World War II and with the Nazi occupation of Denmark, a determined opponent of Denmark’s forced adherence to the renewed Anti-Comintern Pact in 1941. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Vilhelm Buhl has received more than 77,724 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 19 in 2019). Vilhelm Buhl is the 11,613th most popular politician (up from 11,830th in 2019), the 340th most popular biography from Denmark (up from 362nd in 2019) and the 114th most popular Danish Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Vilhelm Buhl ranks 11,613 out of 19,576. Before him are Prince Adolf of Auersperg, Ansgarde of Burgundy, José María Iglesias, Gnaeus Papirius Carbo, Pat Cox, and William Beresford, 1st Viscount Beresford. After him are Yolande of Aragon, Duchess of Calabria, Boiorix, Choekyi Gyaltsen, 10th Panchen Lama, Hermann Muhs, Adelaide, Countess of Burgundy, and Edward Stafford, 3rd Duke of Buckingham.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1881, Vilhelm Buhl ranks 119. Before him are Harry Hillman, Jānis Balodis, Giuseppe Amisani, Heinrich Barkhausen, Dora Boothby, and Henri Le Fauconnier. After him are Curt Haase, Karl Staaf, Móric Esterházy, Zhang Zongchang, Marcello Piacentini, and Rudolf Ramek. Among people deceased in 1954, Vilhelm Buhl ranks 87. Before him are Hella Wuolijoki, Omer Nishani, Émile Mâle, Samuel Jones, Axel Pehrsson-Bramstorp, and Oswald de Andrade. After him are Mikhail Prishvin, Agus Salim, Franz Josef Popp, Theodore Lyman IV, William Hoyt, and Werner Bischof.

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In Denmark

Among people born in Denmark, Vilhelm Buhl ranks 340 out of 1,032. Before him are Jean Hersholt (1886), Per Nørgård (1932), Erik Eriksen (1902), Palle Huld (1912), Hans Wegner (1914), and Thomas Kingo (1634). After him are Lucile Grahn (1819), Harald Høffding (1843), Hans Hedtoft (1903), Søren Kam (1921), Christian August, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenburg (1696), and Olafur Eliasson (1967).

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Among POLITICIANS In Denmark

Among politicians born in Denmark, Vilhelm Buhl ranks 114. Before him are August Philipp, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Beck (1612), Elizabeth of Denmark, Duchess of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel (1573), Ditlev Gothard Monrad (1811), Dorothea of Denmark, Duchess of Prussia (1504), Caspar Bartholin the Younger (1655), and Erik Eriksen (1902). After him are Hans Hedtoft (1903), Hilmar Baunsgaard (1920), Prince Aage, Count of Rosenborg (1887), Jacob Brønnum Scavenius Estrup (1825), Viggo Kampmann (1910), and Anders Sandøe Ørsted (1778).

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