Knud Sehested
Knud Sehested (born December 4, 1850 on Gut Broholm near Gudme ; † August 28, 1908 on Addithus near Brædstrup ) was a Danish politician.
The son of the archaeologist Niels Frederik Bernhard Sehested attended the Herlufsholm boarding school and then studied law. In 1876 he joined the Ministry of the Interior, first as a trainee, in 1878 as an assistant, in 1893 as an office manager and in 1894 as head of the agricultural department. In 1896 he took over the management of the newly created Ministry of Agriculture under Prime Minister Tage Reedtz-Thott and thus became Denmark's first Minister of Agriculture. During his one-year tenure, he succeeded in enforcing important laws on land division, export and trade in agricultural goods.
When Hugo Egmont Hørring took office , he left the Ministry of Agriculture. In the following year, however, he became President of Landhusholdningsselskab and as such continued to have significant influence on the development of Danish agriculture. In 1905 he took part in the founding of the International Agricultural Institute in Rome as a representative of Denmark . In 1906 he took over the management of the Danish Agricultural Museum.
Sehested's brother Hannibal was also a politician and from 1900 to 1901 Danish Prime Minister, his sister Thyra a historian and his sister Hilda a pianist and composer.
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|---|---|
| SURNAME | Sehested, Knud |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Danish politician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 4th December 1850 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Gudme |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 28, 1908 |
| Place of death | Brædstrup |