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Peter Rochegune Munch

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Born:
July 25, 1870, Redsted, Den.
Died:
Jan. 12, 1948, Copenhagen (aged 77)

Peter Rochegune Munch (born July 25, 1870, Redsted, Den.—died Jan. 12, 1948, Copenhagen) was a historian and politician who as Danish foreign minister in the 1930s attempted to maintain Danish neutrality and independence during the dictatorship of Adolf Hitler in Germany. After a career as a historian of modern Europe, Munch entered the Danish Parliament in 1909 as a member of the Radical Party. In the same year he became minister of the interior in the Radical government of C.T. Zahle (1909–10). In the second Zahle government (1913–20) he served as minister of defense. While he was foreign minister in ...(100 of 157 words)

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