# Niels Neergaard

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{{Short description|Danish historian and political figure (1854-1936)}}
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| name            = Niels Neergaard
| image           = Niels Thomasius Neergaard.jpg
| order           = [Prime Minister of Denmark](/source/Prime_Minister_of_Denmark)
| term_start      = 5 May 1920
| term_end        = 23 April 1924
| monarch         = [Christian X](/source/Christian_X)
| predecessor     = [Michael Pedersen Friis](/source/Michael_Pedersen_Friis)
| successor       = [Thorvald Stauning](/source/Thorvald_Stauning)
| order2          = [Council President of Denmark](/source/Prime_Minister_of_Denmark)
| term_start2     = 12 October 1908
| term_end2       = 16 August 1909
| monarch2        = [Frederik VIII](/source/Frederick_VIII_of_Denmark)
| predecessor2    = [Jens Christian Christensen](/source/Jens_Christian_Christensen)
| successor2      = [Ludvig Holstein-Ledreborg](/source/Ludvig_Holstein-Ledreborg)
| office3         = [Minister for Finance](/source/List_of_Minister_for_Finance_(Denmark))
| term_start3     = 14 December 1926
| term_end3       = 30 April 1929
| prime_minister3 = [Thomas Madsen-Mygdal](/source/Thomas_Madsen-Mygdal)
| predecessor3    = [Carl Valdemar Bramsnæs](/source/%3Adk%3ACarl_Valdemar_Bramsn%C3%A6s)
| successor3      = Carl Valdemar Bramsnæs
| term_start4     = 5 May 1920
| term_end4       = 23 April 1924
| prime_minister4 = ''Himself''
| predecessor4    = [Michael Kofoed](/source/%3Adk%3AMichael_Kofoed)
| successor4      = Carl Valdemar Bramsnæs
| term_start5     = 5 July 1910
| term_end5       = 21 June 1913
| prime_minister5 = [Klaus Berntsen](/source/Klaus_Berntsen)
| predecessor5    = [Edvard Brandes](/source/Edvard_Brandes)
| successor5      = Edvard Brandes
| term_start6     = 16 August 1909
| term_end6       = 28 October 1909
| prime_minister6 = Ludvig Holstein-Ledreborg
| predecessor6    = [Charles Brun](/source/Charles_Brun_(Denmark))
| successor6      = Edvard Brandes
| office7         = [Minister of Defence](/source/List_of_Ministers_of_Defence_(Denmark))
| 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](/source/Ugilt), [Hjørring](/source/Hj%C3%B8rring), Denmark
| death_date      = {{death date and age|1936|9|2|1854|6|27|df=y}}
| death_place     = [Copenhagen](/source/Copenhagen), Denmark
| party           = [Moderate Venstre](/source/Moderate_Venstre_(Denmark))<br>[Venstre](/source/Venstre_(Denmark))
| alma_mater      = [University of Copenhagen](/source/University_of_Copenhagen)
}}

'''Niels Thomasius Neergaard''' (27 June 1854 &ndash; 2 September 1936) was a Danish [historian](/source/historian) and [political figure](/source/political_figure), a member of the [Liberal](/source/Liberalism) [Moderate Venstre](/source/Moderate_Venstre_(Denmark)) and since 1910 of [Venstre](/source/Venstre_(Denmark)). He served as [Council President of Denmark](/source/Council_President_of_Denmark) between 1908 and 1909 and as [Prime Minister of Denmark](/source/Prime_Minister_of_Denmark) and [Finance Minister](/source/Finance_Minister_of_Denmark) 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](/source/University_of_Copenhagen), from which he attained the degrees [cand.mag.](/source/cand.mag.) in [history](/source/history) and [cand.polit.](/source/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](/source/Easter_Crisis_of_1920), organizing the return of [South Jutland](/source/Southern_Jutland) to Danish rule and having to deal with the economic crisis brought on by [World War I](/source/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](/source/Constitution_of_Denmark).<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](/source/literary_magazine), ''[Tilskueren](/source/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==
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==External links==
*[Danish Wikipedia on Niels Neergaard](/source/%3Ada%3ANiels_Neergaard)

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{{succession box|
 title=[Finance Minister of Denmark](/source/List_of_Finance_Ministers_of_Denmark)|
 before=[Vilhelm Lassen](/source/Vilhelm_Lassen)|
 years=24 July 1908 &ndash; 12 October 1908| 
 after=[Charles Brun](/source/Charles_Brun_(Denmark))
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 title=[Council President of Denmark](/source/List_of_Prime_Ministers_of_Denmark)|
 before=[Jens Christian Christensen](/source/Jens_Christian_Christensen)|
 years=12 October 1908 &ndash; 16 August 1909| 
 after=[Ludvig Holstein-Ledreborg](/source/Ludvig_Holstein-Ledreborg)
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 title=[Defence Minister of Denmark](/source/List_of_Defence_Ministers_of_Denmark)|
 before=[Jens Christian Christensen](/source/Jens_Christian_Christensen)|
 years=12 October 1908 &ndash; 16 August 1909|
 after=[Jens Christian Christensen](/source/Jens_Christian_Christensen)
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 title=[Finance Minister of Denmark](/source/List_of_Finance_Ministers_of_Denmark)|
 before=[Charles Brun](/source/Charles_Brun_(Denmark))|
 years=16 August 1909 &ndash; 28 October 1909| 
 after=[Edvard Brandes](/source/Edvard_Brandes)
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 title=[Finance Minister of Denmark](/source/List_of_Finance_Ministers_of_Denmark)|
 before=[Edvard Brandes](/source/Edvard_Brandes)|
 years=5 July 1910 &ndash; 21 June 1913| 
 after=[Edvard Brandes](/source/Edvard_Brandes)
}}
{{succession box|
 title=[Prime Minister of Denmark](/source/List_of_Prime_Ministers_of_Denmark)|
 before=[Michael Pedersen Friis](/source/Michael_Pedersen_Friis)|
 years=5 May 1920 &ndash; 23 April 1924| 
 after=[Thorvald Stauning](/source/Thorvald_Stauning)
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 title=[Finance Minister of Denmark](/source/List_of_Finance_Ministers_of_Denmark)|
 before=[A.M. Koefoed](/source/A.M._Koefoed)|
 years=5 May 1920 &ndash; 23 April 1924| 
 after=[Carl Valdemar Bramsnæs](/source/Carl_Valdemar_Bramsn%C3%A6s)
}}
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 title=[Finance Minister of Denmark](/source/List_of_Finance_Ministers_of_Denmark)|
 before=[Carl Valdemar Bramsnæs](/source/Carl_Valdemar_Bramsn%C3%A6s)|
 years=14 December 1926 &ndash; 30 April 1929| 
 after=[Carl Valdemar Bramsnæs](/source/Carl_Valdemar_Bramsn%C3%A6s)
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