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Dragør Parish
Dragør () is the main town of Dragør Municipality, (Denmark), which includes the village of Store Magleby. The city hall and seat of the municipal council lies on Kirkevej 7 (postal code 2791 Dragør) in Store Magleby, which has enough space for such a large building. Geography Dragør, on the southeastern coast of the island of Amager, is located only 12 km from central Copenhagen. Together with the neighbouring village of Store Magleby, it forms a separate urban area with a population of 12,401 (1 January 2022).BY3: Population 1. January by urban areas, area and population density The Mobile Statbank from Dragør has many w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Regions Of Denmark
The five Regions of Denmark ( da, regioner) were created as administrative entities at a level above the municipalities and below the central government in the public sector as part of the 2007 Danish Municipal Reform, when the 13 counties ('' amter'') were abolished. At the same time, the number of municipalities ('' kommuner'') was cut from 270 to 98. The reform was approved and made into a law by the lawmakers in the Folketing 26 June 2005 with elections to the 98 municipalities and 5 regions being held Tuesday 15 November 2005. Each region is governed by a popularly elected regional council with 41 members, from whom the regional chairperson is chosen. The main responsibility of the regions is healthcare. Lesser powers of the regions include public transport, environmental planning, soil pollution management and some coordination of secondary education. In contrast to the former counties (1970–2006), the regions do not have municipal powers. Regions cannot levy taxes, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sterling Airlines
Sterling Airlines A/S was a low-cost airline with its head office at Copenhagen Airport South in Dragør, Dragør Municipality, Denmark. It was created in September 2005 through the merger of two Danish airlines — Sterling European Airlines and Maersk Air — which had been acquired by the Icelandic investment group Fons Eignarhaldsfélag a few months before for MDKK 500. Fons was owned by Icelandic business tycoon Palmi Haraldsson. One month after the merger, Sterling Airlines was sold to the FL Group for an amount of MDKK 1500. In December 2006, Sterling was sold again, this time to Nordic Travel Holding. On 6 January 2006, Hannes Þór Smárason, CEO of the FL Group, stated that a merger of EasyJet and Sterling was a possibility. At the end of 2005, Sterling Airlines had 1,600 staff and 29 aircraft, making it almost twice as large as Icelandair. The company flew to some 40 European destinations, with Copenhagen Airport, Oslo Airport, Gardermoen and Stockholm-Arlanda A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frederik Schram
Frederik August Albrecht Schram (born 19 January 1995) is a professional footballer who plays for as a goalkeeper for Icelandic club Valur. Born in Denmark, he represents the Iceland national team internationally. Club career Frederik is a product of Danish Dragør Boldklub and as a teenager Odense Boldklub youth academy. In May 2019, Schram left FC Roskilde and joined SønderjyskE on a contract for the rest of 2019. One month after his arrival, Schram was loaned out to Lyngby Boldklub for the rest of 2019. However, his contract was not extended by the end of the year and he left the club, becoming a free agent. On 14 January 2020, Schram made a permanent transfer to Lyngby BK, signing a six-month contract. He suffered relegation to the Danish 1st Division with the club on 9 May 2021 after a loss to last placed AC Horsens. On 24 June 2022 it was confirmed, that Schram had signed with Icelandic giants Valur, he signed a two year contract running until the end of 2024. Inter ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
FC Midtjylland
FC Midtjylland (, "Central Jutland") is a Danish professional football club based in Herning and Ikast in the western part of Jutland. The club is the result of a merger between Ikast FS and Herning Fremad. Midtjylland competes in the Danish Superliga, which they have won three times, most recently in 2020. Club history FC Midtjylland was founded by Johnny Rune, a carpenter and owner of a private business in the wood-supply industry, and Steen Hessel, an authorized Mercedes-Benz dealer. The two men wanted to unite the football clubs Ikast FS (founded 1935) and Herning Fremad (founded 1918) – clubs that for decades had been strong rivals, but had never played any significant role in Danish football. Ikast FS had some success in the late 1970s and '80s and made three Danish Cup final appearances, but had never been a top team in the Danish league. At least ten years had passed with the two clubs being unable to agree on a merger, but on 6 April 1999, a deal was finalise ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marc Dal Hende
Marc Dal Hende (; born 6 November 1990) is a Danish professional footballer who plays for Danish Superliga club SønderjyskE. Career On 1 December 2009, Dal Hende signed a one-and-a-half year contract with Viborg FF after having played for the FC Copenhagen reserve team in the Danish third tier. His contract was not renewed, however, and he signed with AB one a one-year deal in the summer of 2011. In June 2013, Dal Hende signed a three-year contract with FC Vestsjælland who had just been promoted to the Danish Superliga. He scored his first goal for FCV on 15 September 2013 against Randers FC. On 31 August 2015, Dal Hende signed a two-year contract with SønderjyskE. The first rumors of Dal Hende joining FC Midtjylland began during the summer of 2016, but the deal was finalized roughly half a year later, on 29 January 2017. He won two Danish Superliga trophies and a Danish Cup while at Midtjylland, amassing 81 total appearances in which he scored an impressive 21 goals from his ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anne Skare Nielsen
Anne Skare Nielsen is a Danish futurist, lecturer, author, and partner in Universal Futurist. From 2003-2019 she was founding partner at Future Navigator. She was born in 1971 in Vejle, Denmark. Nielsen holds a bachelor in biology and a master in political science from University of Copenhagen. Anne helps companies and individuals predict and make the best of the future. She is the author of the Danish book "En linedans fra ide til succes". Anne acted as news anchor at "NewScience" at TV 2 News, a Danish TV channel, in 2015-2016. She was a board member of The Organic Company and Spinderihallerne. Furthermore, she is part of the advisory board at Danish Rugby Union The Danish Rugby Union (DRU) () is the governing body for rugby union in Denmark. Rugby began being played in Denmark in 1931 but it was not until 1950 that the DRU was established. In 1971 the DRU joined FIRA - Association of European Rugby follo ... and TEDx Øresund. She lives in Dragør, Denmark, with her husband ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Royal Danish Ballet
The Royal Danish Ballet is an internationally renowned classical ballet company, based at the Royal Danish Theatre in Kongens Nytorv, Copenhagen, Denmark. It is one of the oldest ballet companies in the world and originates from 1748, when the Royal Danish Theatre was founded. It was finally organized in 1771 in response to the great popularity of French and Italian styles of dance. The company was founded with the opening of the Royal Danish Theatre, which has served as its home since that time. The Royal Danish Ballet school was founded in 1771 under the French ballet teacher Pierre Laurent (1730–1807), Then Vincenzo Galeotti developed it and August Bournonville founded his methodology for the school. History From the outset, the Royal Danish Ballet employed some of the leading French and Italian dancers and choreographers. Within a few years of its founding, in 1771, the Royal Theater Ballet School or Royal Danish Ballet school was established to provide native dancers, o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Silja Schandorff
Silja Maria Wendrup Schandorff (born 1969) is a Danish ballerina who performed with the Royal Danish Ballet from 1985 to 2009. She has since served the Royal Theatre as ballet instructor and deputy ballet master. Biography Born on 10 February 1969 in Dragør, Silja Schandorff is the daughter of Axel Carl Schandorff, a Cyclist with Olympic bronze medal and goldsmith, and Runa Clara Wendrup Petersen, a ballet dancer in Tivoli's Pantomime Theatre. Thanks to the encouragement of her parents, she entered the Royal Theatre's ballet school in 1975. When only nine, she performed a solo children's dance in ''Elverhøj''. After her début in Ib Andersen's ''1-2-3–1-2'' in 1975, she quickly moved on to the Neoclassical works of George Balanchine, starring in '' Tschaikovsky Piano Concerto No. 2'', ''Tzigane'', ''La sonnambula'', ''Tschaikovsky Pas de Deux'', ''Allegro Brillante'', '' Agon'' and ''Apollo''. As a result of her dancing in the theatre's Balanchine season, she became a princi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marcel Hansen (criminal)
Marcel Lychau Hansen (born October 2, 1965), better known as the Amager Man, is a Danish serial rapist and twice-convicted murderer who was sentenced to life imprisonment for one robbery and one murder by a jury in the Copenhagen City Court on December 22, 2011. Hansen has also been convicted of six rapes, one of them being a quadruple rape, committed from February 16, 1987, to September 25, 2010. Hansen was born on October 2, 1965, growing up at Tilburg Allé in Dragør, on Amager. He attended the Skelgårdsskolen in Tårnby, and later had a family in Kastrup in 1988 with a young girlfriend. They never married, and separated after nearly 20 years of cohabitation in 2007. The couple has two sons. Past employment In the 1980s, Marcel Hansen worked in the furniture moving business for the company 3x34, and until his arrest, for approximately 12 years he worked as a janitor for the Scandinavian Airlines at Copenhagen Airport. In addition, he was an active football player in the Sund ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arnold Peter Møller
Arnold Peter Møller (2 October 1876 – 12 June 1965), better known as A. P. Møller, was a Danish shipping magnate, businessman who was the founder of the A.P. Moller-Maersk Group in 1904. Biography A. P. Møller was the son of captain Peter Mærsk Møller and Anna Hans Jeppesen. His mother came from a well known shipping dynasty in Dragør and his maternal grandfather Hans Nielsen Jeppesen was known as "the King of Dragør". The Møller family moved to Svendborg on Funen after having lost a power struggle against Anna's sisters and their husbands. In 1904, A. P. Møller and his father founded ''Dampskibsselskabet Svendborg'' (Steamship Company Svendborg) with a capital of DKK 150,000, Katrine Nielsen JensenA.P. Møller – Mærsk Danmarks Radio, 30 June 2005 to take advantage of business opportunities created by the introduction of steam ships. A. P. Møller went on to found ''Dampskibsselskabet af 1912'' (Steamship Company of 1912) to be free to operate his business as he ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maersk
(), also known simply as Maersk (), is a Danish shipping company, active in ocean and inland freight transportation and associated services, such as supply chain management and port operation. Maersk was the largest container shipping line and vessel operator in the world from 1996 until 2022. The company is based in Copenhagen, Denmark, with subsidiaries and offices across 130 countries and around 83,000 employees worldwide in 2020. It is a publicly traded family business, as the company is controlled by the namesake Møller family through holding companies. In September 2016, Maersk Group announced that it was splitting into two separate divisions: Transport & Logistics, and Energy. The company's 2018 annual revenue was US$39 billion (2019). In the 2020 Forbes Global 2000, Møller-Maersk was ranked as the 622nd -largest public company in the world. History () was founded in Svendborg in April 1904 by captain Peter Mærsk Møller (1836–1927) and his son Arnold Peter ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Mærsk Møller
Peter Mærsk Møller (22 September 1836 – 9 February 1927) was a Danish sea captain and the father of Arnold Peter Møller, founder of the Maersk corporation, and grandfather of Mærsk Mc-Kinney Møller, who made Maersk the largest container ship operator and supply vessel operator in the world. Career He passed his merchant officer's examination at Flensborg Navigation School and became a captain in 1861. His first assignment was the ship ''Prima'' in 1862. After the Second Schleswig War in 1864, Rømø, as Flensborg, passed under Prussian rule (and from 1871 German territory; Rømø remained so until 1920, and Flensborg – now Flensburg – still is a German city), so Captain Mærsk Møller moved to Dragør, only a few kilometres to the east of Copenhagen. He was the first in Denmark to suggest steam ships instead of sailing ships. He did so in 1884, as he moved from Dragør to Svendborg, on the island of Fyn. In 1904, Peter Mærsk Møller, with the fifth of his nine ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
