{{Short description|Danish historian and political figure (1854-1936)}} {{Infobox officeholder | name = Niels Neergaard | image = Niels Thomasius Neergaard.jpg | order = Prime Minister of Denmark | term_start = 5 May 1920 | term_end = 23 April 1924 | monarch = Christian X | predecessor = Michael Pedersen Friis | successor = Thorvald Stauning | order2 = Council President of Denmark | term_start2 = 12 October 1908 | term_end2 = 16 August 1909 | monarch2 = Frederik VIII | predecessor2 = Jens Christian Christensen | successor2 = Ludvig Holstein-Ledreborg | office3 = Minister for Finance | term_start3 = 14 December 1926 | term_end3 = 30 April 1929 | prime_minister3 = Thomas Madsen-Mygdal | predecessor3 = Carl Valdemar Bramsnæs | successor3 = Carl Valdemar Bramsnæs | term_start4 = 5 May 1920 | term_end4 = 23 April 1924 | prime_minister4 = ''Himself'' | predecessor4 = Michael Kofoed | successor4 = Carl Valdemar Bramsnæs | term_start5 = 5 July 1910 | term_end5 = 21 June 1913 | prime_minister5 = Klaus Berntsen | predecessor5 = Edvard Brandes | successor5 = Edvard Brandes | term_start6 = 16 August 1909 | term_end6 = 28 October 1909 | prime_minister6 = Ludvig Holstein-Ledreborg | predecessor6 = Charles Brun | successor6 = Edvard Brandes | office7 = Minister of Defence | term_start7 = 12 October 1908 | term_end7 = 16 September 1909 | prime_minister7 = ''Himself'' <br> Ludvig Holstein-Ledreborg | predecessor7 = Jens Christian Christensen | successor7 = Jens Christian Christensen | birth_date = {{birth date|1854|6|27|df=y}} | birth_place = Ugilt, Hjørring, Denmark | death_date = {{death date and age|1936|9|2|1854|6|27|df=y}} | death_place = Copenhagen, Denmark | party = Moderate Venstre<br>Venstre | alma_mater = University of Copenhagen }}
'''Niels Thomasius Neergaard''' (27 June 1854 – 2 September 1936) was a Danish historian and political figure, a member of the Liberal Moderate Venstre and since 1910 of Venstre. He served as Council President of Denmark between 1908 and 1909 and as Prime Minister of Denmark and Finance Minister from 1920 to 1924. He was also minister of defence from 1908 to 1909, and finance minister on three more occasions: August to October 1909, 1910 to 1913 and 1926 to 1929.
==Biography== Neergaard was educated at the University of Copenhagen, from which he attained the degrees cand.mag. in history and cand.polit. in 1879 and 1881, respectively.<ref name=DanishPrimeMinisters>{{cite web|url=https://www.stm.dk/_p_10503.html|title=List of Danish Prime Ministers Since 1848|publisher=Ministry of the State of Denmark|accessdate=1 September 2020|language=Danish}}</ref>
Neergaard's greatest challenges as a politician were as prime minister and finance minister after the Easter Crisis of 1920, organizing the return of South Jutland to Danish rule and having to deal with the economic crisis brought on by World War I.<ref name=Skou>Skou, Kaare R. (2005). ''Dansk politik A-Å'' {{in lang|da}}. Aschehoug, pp. 491-92. {{ISBN|87-11-11652-8}}.</ref> He also had a significant influence on the content of the Constitution of 1915.<ref name=Skou/>
Neergaard's largest work as a historian, ''Under junigrundloven'' (1892-1916), is still considered the primary work on Danish politics 1848–1866.<ref name=Skou/> In addition to his political activities and work as a historian he also dealt with journalism, and in 1884 he founded a cultural and literary magazine, ''Tilskueren''.<ref>{{cite book|author1=Peter Brooker|author2=Sascha Bru|author3=Andrew Thacker|author4=Christian Weikop|title=The Oxford Critical and Cultural History of Modernist Magazines: Europe 1880 - 1940|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bvsfioiQ8k8C&pg=PA622|accessdate=9 May 2015|date=19 May 2013|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=978-0-19-965958-6|page=622}}</ref>
==References== {{Reflist}}
==External links== *Danish Wikipedia on Niels Neergaard
{{s-start}} {{s-off}} {{succession box| title=Finance Minister of Denmark| before=Vilhelm Lassen| years=24 July 1908 – 12 October 1908| after=Charles Brun }} {{succession box| title=Council President of Denmark| before=Jens Christian Christensen| years=12 October 1908 – 16 August 1909| after=Ludvig Holstein-Ledreborg }} {{succession box| title=Defence Minister of Denmark| before=Jens Christian Christensen| years=12 October 1908 – 16 August 1909| after=Jens Christian Christensen }} {{succession box| title=Finance Minister of Denmark| before=Charles Brun| years=16 August 1909 – 28 October 1909| after=Edvard Brandes }} {{succession box| title=Finance Minister of Denmark| before=Edvard Brandes| years=5 July 1910 – 21 June 1913| after=Edvard Brandes }} {{succession box| title=Prime Minister of Denmark| before=Michael Pedersen Friis| years=5 May 1920 – 23 April 1924| after=Thorvald Stauning }} {{succession box| title=Finance Minister of Denmark| before=A.M. Koefoed| years=5 May 1920 – 23 April 1924| after=Carl Valdemar Bramsnæs }} {{succession box| title=Finance Minister of Denmark| before=Carl Valdemar Bramsnæs| years=14 December 1926 – 30 April 1929| after=Carl Valdemar Bramsnæs }} {{s-end}}
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