Jens Andersen Hansen
Jens Andersen Hansen (born January 7, 1806 in Odense , † June 1, 1877 in Copenhagen ) was a Danish politician .
Hansen learned the shoemaking trade from his father and became a journeyman in 1824. In 1834 he became organist and town musician in Rudkøbing , and a year later he became a master shoemaker there. In 1838 he moved to Slagelse and in 1841 to Fredericia . After he began publishing the Almuevennen ("People's Friend ") in 1842 , he gave up his craft and went to Copenhagen, where he was temporarily editor of the Faedreland .
He took an active part in the political movement of the 1840s and was elected to the constituent parliament by Rudkøbing in 1848; Since then he has been a member of the parliament, in which he was the soul of the left, the democratic peasant party, and successfully fought against the rule of the national liberal party based on the population of the capital.
After his party gained a majority in the Folketing , he became its president. Just as he himself had overcome his inadequate upbringing of youth through restless diligence, so he also sought to raise the peasant class spiritually and materially.
As the chairman of two insurance companies, he gradually embezzled 190,000 kroner for his own benefit and for party purposes. When the crime was discovered in 1877, Hansen admitted it at the first judicial questioning and committed suicide on June 1, 1877.
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| SURNAME | Hansen, Jens Andersen |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Danish politician, member of the Folketing |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 7, 1806 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Odense |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 1, 1877 |
| Place of death | Copenhagen |