Johan Ludvig Carl Christian Tido Holstein (10 June 1839 – 1 March 1912), was a Danish

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who was Minister of State of Denmark. He was Council President of Denmark for two months, from 16 August to 28 October 1909. He also served as

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from 18 October to 28 October 1909.

Biography

Holstein was the son of Count Christian Edzard Moritz (1809-1895) and Caroline Louise Lefeubre de Marpalu (1810-1903). He was a descendant of Danish Minister of state

Johan Ludvig Holstein-Ledreborg Johan Ludvig Holstein, Lensgreve til Ledreborg (7 September 1694 – 29 January 1763) was a Danish Minister of state from 1735 to 1751. The Danish colony Holsteinsborg on Greenland (now Sisimiut), was named after him. He was the ancestor of the ...

(1694–1763). He became a student from Roskilde Cathedral School in 1859 and became a Cand.polit. from the

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in 1866. He took over the

Ledreborg Ledreborg is a palatial mansion near Lejre, to the southwest of Roskilde on the Danish island of Zealand. Today's Baroque building was completed in 1746 by Minister of State Johan Ludvig Holstein (1694–1763) who commissioned J.C. Krieger to ...

estate after his father's death in 1895. He rebuilt the chapel at Ledreborg and also had the buildings and the garden restored.

Prime Minister

Following the lack of a majority in the

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election,

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suggested to Frederick VIII that Holstein may be able to gain the support of the three major liberal parties. The three Liberal groups settled on him as a prime minister, creating the first coalition after the establishment of the parliamentary system in Denmark. As prime minister, he formed a liberal cabinet with

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as defence minister,

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as finance minister, and Klaus Berntsen as minister of justice, and managed to form a compromise in the question of defence that satisfied the liberal parties, while still being acceptable to

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. As one of the few members of the Venstre Reform Party, the Danish Liberal party belonging to the nobility, Holstein was isolated by his colleagues and at the same time took a special position within ''Venstre''. He was considered an outstanding and varied speaker and as one of "the five leaders of Venstre" but already 1890 he gave up his political life devoting himself to his life as a squire on

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. Around two months into Holstein's term, conservative members of the Folketing called for a

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in him, which failed. Shortly after, the Radical Democrats called for a vote of no confidence for his cabinet. This vote succeeded, marking the first time that a Danish cabinet was ousted by a vote of no confidence from the Folketing. He called upon the Radical Democrats to form a new cabinet because they instigated the vote to oust the old cabinet, and proceeded to resign.

Personal life

In 1867 he married Ingeborg de Løvenørn (1842-1915). Holstein converted to

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that same year which made him Denmark's first and, so far, only

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Prime Minister.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Holstein-Ledreborg, Ludvig 1839 births 1912 deaths People from Ludwigsburg (district) People from the Kingdom of Württemberg Danish Roman Catholics Prime Ministers of Denmark Danish Defence Ministers Members of the Folketing 20th-century Danish politicians University of Copenhagen alumni