Vilhelm la Cour

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Vilhelm la Cour (born December 23, 1883 in Kongens Lyngby , † June 22, 1974 in Birkerød ) was a Danish historian .

Life

In 1902 he was a student at the state school in Birkerød. With his master's degree he became a teacher. From 1909 he taught at schools in Lyngby. During this time the national conservative la Cour was very committed to the South Jutian cause. He vehemently demanded At the time of the vote on the border line in 1920 , he demanded that the border should run south from Flensburg to the Eider ; See Eider Danes . He was considered the driving force behind the so-called Flensburg movement. For tactical reasons, this wanted Flensburg to vote together with the North Schleswig Zone so that there would be a Danish majority in the Flensburg area. In 1928 he was at the University of Copenhagen . His dissertation from 1927 dealt with the oldest buildings in Zealand . With his successful doctoral thesis he obtained the academic degree of Dr. phil. At the end of the 1930s he published the double volume “Denmark's History 1-2” (1937–1940), in which he also devoted himself to recent Danish history.

Until 1940 la Cour was a member of the Conservative People's Party . Since he was against his party joining the new coalition government, he resigned. Then he sympathized with the nationalist Dansk Samling . During the Second World War , la Cour, as a Danish national historian, spoke out against the National Socialist regime and encouraged people to resist the German occupation forces. Therefore, in 1942, he lost his job at the State School Birkerød. He was also sentenced to 80 days and then detained. The following year he went underground and fled to Sweden in 1944, where he joined the Danish brigade . After the war he got his teaching post back in Birkerød and kept it until 1949. He also published the three-volume work “Denmark during the Occupation”.

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In Flensburg's Weiche district , the Vilhelm-la-Cour-Weg was named after him.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Niels Wium Olesen, Jakob Sørensen, Claus Bundgård Christensen and Joachim Lund: Danmark besat. Krig and Hverdag . Copenhagen 2015, section on Vilhelm la Cour
  2. ↑ VIMU. Vilhelm la Cour , accessed on: January 13, 2018
  3. ↑ VIMU. Vilhelm la Cour and the Flensburg Movement , accessed on: January 13, 2018
  4. ↑ VIMU. Vilhelm la Cour , accessed on: January 13, 2018
  5. ↑ John Gilmour and Jill Stephenson: Hitler's Scandinavian Legacy . London and New York 2013, Chapter: Censorship
  6. ↑ Udtalelse ved samlingsregeringens dannelse July 8, 1940 , accessed on: January 13, 2018
  7. ↑ VIMU. Vilhelm la Cour , accessed on: January 13, 2018
  8. ↑ VIMU. Vilhelm la Cour , accessed on: January 13, 2018
  9. ↑ VIMU. Vilhelm la Cour , accessed on: January 13, 2018
personal data
SURNAME la Cour, Vilhelm
ALTERNATIVE NAMES La Cour, Vilhelm Birkedal Barfod Dornonville de (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Danish historian
DATE OF BIRTH December 23, 1883
PLACE OF BIRTH Lyngby
DATE OF DEATH June 22, 1974
Place of death Birkerød