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The Danish Chancellery ( Danish Danske Kancelli ) was the administrative authority of the Kingdom of Denmark with its seat in Copenhagen responsible for the administration of the central parts of the country and the North Atlantic possessions .

History and skills

The Danish chancellery was responsible for the administration of the central parts of Jutland , Funen , Zealand and until 1645 Halland and until 1656 Schonen and Blekinge as well as Norway and the North Atlantic possessions of Iceland , Faroe Islands and Greenland in Danish . There was also the German Chancellery , the administrative authority responsible for the duchies of Schleswig and Holstein from the 17th to 19th centuries in German. Both authorities had their origins in the ducal chancellery of Frederick I at Gottorf Castle in the first half of the 16th century and mark the establishment of a central state administrative organization in the early modern period. Until 1848, the head of the chancellery, mostly a member of the high nobility, also had great influence on the government as a whole.

In 1771 Struensee divided the Danish chancellery into the Danish, Norwegian and colonial departments, but this was immediately reversed after his fall. Neither he nor the administrative reform of 1799 changed anything in the typically absolutist unity of legislative , executive and judicial branches . It was only in the course of the abolition of absolutism in 1848 that the Danish Chancellery became the Statsministeriet (State Chancellery), the indenrigsministeriet (Ministry of the Interior), justitsministeriet (Ministry of Foreign Affairs) and the ecclesiastikministeriet (Ministry of Education).

Web links

• Danske Kancelli. Aarhus Universitet, Institut for Historie og Områdestudier, accessed on September 4, 2018 .