Carl Christian Hall

Carl Christian Hall ( born February 25, 1812 in Christianshavn, † August 14, 1888 ) was a Danish lawyer and statesman.

Life and effect

Hall studied from 1829 to 1833 Law, toured in the following years, Germany, Switzerland, Italy, where he spent a winter, France and England, was appointed soon after his return (1839 ) for Legal Assistant in the army and in 1847 professor of the rights to the University of Copenhagen.

In 1848 he was elected to the final assembly of the estates and stepped out of her in the national assembly ( Rigsdag ) above, in which since then have called him the same constituency seven times. Due to significant talent as an orator and energy, he swung himself on to one of the leaders of the National Liberal ( eider Danish ) party. 1852 appointed Generalauditeur the army, he lost this position again as a result of his opposition to the Ministry Ørsted. Initiated by him reply address on the opening speech at the Reichstag in October 1854 led to the same resolution. In December 1854 he was appointed minister for the churches and schools of the Kingdom, in October 1855 the State Council; in January 1856 elected him the Folketing in the Imperial Parliament, and in February he received an interim basis Kultusangelegenheiten for Schleswig transferred.

Following the resignation Scheele he was Konseilspräsident with maintaining his ministry, but this reversed in July 1858 on an interim basis in May of the following year definitely with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

Although the requirement of the dismissal of the chamberlain Berling made ​​in November 1859 the Cabinet Hall an end; but, as early as February 1860, only slightly different composition, again at the helm. Hall took the policy of eider Danish party which pursued the separation of Elbherzogtümer and the complete incorporation of Schleswig into the Danish state by the Constitution of 1863, in many grades. To the Great Powers against the protests of the German Confederation with great zeal and not without skill However, this resulted in the confidence on foreign aid tenaciously held policy to conflict with the German powers, and Hall filed on 24 December 1863 his resignation. In May 1870 Hall stepped back as Minister of Culture in the Cabinet Holstein -Holstein Borg, but withdrew in 1881 entirely from political life.