John Christmas Møller

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John Christmas Møller with OSS representatives, October 1945

John Christmas Møller (born April 3, 1894 in Copenhagen , † April 13, 1948 ) was a conservative Danish politician .

From 1920 to 1941 and from 1945 to 1947 he was a member of the Folketing , the Danish parliament. From 1928 to 1939 he was the chairman of the Conservative People's Party and after the occupation of Denmark by Germany on April 9, 1940, he became Minister without Portfolio in the Thorvald Stauning government . In July 1940 he became Minister of Commerce and had to resign from the government on October 3, 1940 because of his anti-German stance under German pressure, and in January 1941 he had to give up the party chairmanship. He was a co-founder of the underground newspaper Frit Danmark , which appeared in April 1942 and called for resistance.

In May 1942 Møller fled to London and became chairman of the most important organization of the Danes in exile, the Danish Council. In speeches at the BBC he called on his compatriots to civil disobedience and sabotage against the war-essential transport system in Denmark.

At the end of the war, Møller became Foreign Minister on May 7th as a representative of the resistance in the interim government of Vilhelm Buhl .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Matthias Bath: Danebrog against the swastika, The Resistance in Denmark 1940-1945 . Wachholtz 2011, ISBN 978-3-529-02817-5 , p. 25
  2. ^ Alastair H. Thomas: The A to Z of Denmark . Scarecrow Press 2010, ISBN 978-0-8108-7205-9 , p. 95.
  3. ^ Matthias Bath: Danebrog against the swastika, The Resistance in Denmark 1940-1945 . P. 28 ff.
  4. ^ Aage Trommer: Sabotage and strikes in occupied Denmark. In: Wacław Długoborski (ed.): Second World War and Social Change: Axis Powers and Occupied Countries. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1981, ISBN 3-525-35705-2 , p. 256.
  5. ↑ January Hecker Stampehl: United States of the North: integration ideas in Northern Europe during World War II, Oldenbourg 2011, ISBN S. 89th
  6. ^ Arnold P. Goldstein, Edward G. Carr, William S. Davidson: In Response to Aggression: Methods of Control and Prosocial Alternatives . Elsevier, 2013, ISBN 978-0-08-025580-4 , p. 499.
  7. ↑ Karl Christian Lammers: Denmark: Resistance between claim and reality - the myth of the Danish people in the fight for freedom against the Germans. In: Gerd B. Ueberschär (Hrsg.): Handbook on Resistance to National Socialism and Fascism in Europe 1933/39 to 1945. Saur, 2010, p. 75.
  8. ^ Matthias Bath: Danebrog against the swastika, The Resistance in Denmark 1940-1945 . P. 309
predecessor Office successor
Vilhelm Buhl Danish Foreign Minister
May 7, 1945 - November 7, 1945 		Gustav Rasmussen
personal data
SURNAME Møller, John Christmas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Danish politician
DATE OF BIRTH April 3, 1894
PLACE OF BIRTH Copenhagen
DATE OF DEATH April 13, 1948