Carl Theodor Zahle
| Carl Theodor Zahle | |
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| Council President of Denmark | |
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In office 28 October 1909 – 5 July 1910 |
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| Monarch | Frederick VIII |
| Preceded by | Ludvig Holstein-Ledreborg |
| Succeeded by | Klaus Berntsen |
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In office 21 June 1913 – 30 March 1920 |
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| Monarch | Christian X |
| Preceded by | Klaus Berntsen |
| Succeeded by | Otto Liebe |
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| Born |
19 January 1866 Roskilde |
| Died | 3 February 1946 (aged 80) Copenhagen |
| Political party | Det Radikale Venstre |
Carl Theodor Zahle (19 January 1866 in Roskilde – 3 February 1946 in Copenhagen), Danish lawyer and politician; prime minister of Denmark 1909-1910, 1913-1920. In 1895 he was elected member of the lower chamber of the Danish parliament, Folketinget, for Venstrereformpartiet. A campaigner for peace, in 1905 he co-founded Det Radikale Venstre together with other (mostly pacifistic) disgruntled members of Venstrereformpartiet. He continued on as a member of Folketinget for Det Radikale Venstre until 1928, when he became a member of the upper chamber of parliament Landsting. In 1929 he became Justice Minister, a post which he held until 1935. From 1936 until 1945 he was a board member of nationwide daily Politiken.
C. Th. Zahle was born in Roskilde as the son of cobbler Christian Lauritz Gottlieb Zahle and his wife Karen Emilie. He was interested in politics already in high school and saw himself as a convinced democrat in opposition to the Estrup government. He took a degree in law in 1890 and worked for some time at newspapers for instance the newspaper Politiken. In 1894 he passed the bar exam to the high courts.
In 1895 he was elected to the lower house of the Danish Rigsdag in the Ringsted election district. He won the seat and kept it in subsequent elections until 1928 where he was elected to the upper house of parliament. He kept his seat there until 1939. He was a co-founder of the Left Reform Party in 1895 and became a member of the parliamentary finance committee in 1901.
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