Thorvald Stauning, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Prime Minister of Denmark
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Place of Birth: Copenhagen, Capital Region of Denmark, Denmark
About Thorvald Stauning
- Thorvald August Marinus Stauning (Danish: [t?o??væl 'stæ??ne?]; 26 October 1873 in Copenhagen – 3 May 1942) was the first social democratic Prime Minister of Denmark.
- He served as Prime Minister from 1924 to 1926 and again from 1929 until his death in 1942. Under Stauning's leadership Denmark, like the other Western European countries, developed a social welfare state, and though many of his ambitions for Social Democracy were ultimately thwarted, in his lifetime, by events beyond his control, his leadership through grave times places Stauning among the most admired of twentieth-century Danish statesmen. The Stauning Alps, a large mountain range in Greenland, were named after him.
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