Hans Nicolai Hansen (12 March 1835 – 11 January 1910) was a

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politician, lawyer, and speaker of the Landsting, a chamber of the

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. Hansen became a supreme court lawyer in 1863, and in 1873 he left this position to become mayor of the first division of the magistrate of Copenhagen, thus becoming responsible for matters relating to culture and trade licenses, and he held this position until 1897. He was an elected member of the

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from 1876 to 1879 and a royally appointed member of the Landsting from 1895 to 1910, representing the conservative party

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until 1900 when he was one of nine Højre-members of the Landsting who left the party in a protest against the government's duty and tax reforms and formed the conservative group

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in 1902. He was speaker of the Landsting from 1902 to 1907.

References

*Christensen, C. (1892).
Hansen, Hans Nicolai
in C. F. Bricka (ed.) '' Dansk Biografisk Lexikon tillige omfattende Norge for Tidsrummet 1537–1814. VI. bind, Gerson — H. Hansen.'' Copenhagen: Gyldendal, pp. 626–28. *Engelstoft, P. (1922).
Hansen, Hans Nicolai
in Dahl, Svend; Engelstoft, P. (eds.) ''Dansk Biografisk Haandleksikon, første bind''. Copenhagen: Gyldendal, p. 671. 1835 births 1910 deaths 19th-century Danish lawyers Mayors of places in Denmark Members of the Folketing Speakers of the Landsting (Denmark) Conservative People's Party (Denmark) politicians Free Conservatives politicians Politicians from Copenhagen {{Denmark-mayor-stub