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Holger Hansen

Danish politician and academic (1929–2015)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMar 21, 2026
Entity authoritySource title only
Source-derived summary

Holger Hansen (1929–2015) was a Danish academic, jurist and politician from Venstre who served as the minister of environment and minister of Greenland in the cabinet of Poul Hartling from 1973 to 1975. Trained as an agronomist, he received a law degree and worked as an academic after retiring from politics.

Editorial summary

“Holger Hansen” enters the record as danish politician and academic (1929–2015). Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Holger, Hansen and Danish can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewStrongest as a route into the people, institutions and dated events that shaped the subject’s public record. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1929, 2015, 1973, 1975—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Holger, Hansen and Danish.
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Why this record matters

“Holger Hansen” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Holger, Hansen and Danish provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Biographical claims are most persuasive when dates, appointments and relationships can be traced to records created close to the events described. The source revision retrieved here is dated Mar 21, 2026. The first chronological checks are 1929, 2015, 1973 and 1975.

Critical limits

Public reputation and documentary evidence do not always develop together; absence from a summary is not evidence of historical absence. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

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This entry incorporates text from “Holger Hansen” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.