Christen Berg

Christian Berg ( born December 18, 1829 in Fjaltring Lemvig, Jutland, † November 28, 1891 in Copenhagen) was a Danish liberal politician and leader of one wing of the Venstre Party.

Career

Berg was the son of the owner of the farm Poul Madsen and was called after him Chresten Poulsen. It was only during the time he took with reference to his father's farm Sønder Bjerg the name Christenberg to. He and his wife had ten children, among them the later interior minister Sigurd Berg.

Berg became a teacher and acquired in 1852 as a teacher in Kolding such confidence that he was elected in the local constituency from 1866 until his death twelve times without interruption to the Danish Folketing lower house. After 1861, had mountain on the island of Bogø, where he among other things, a navigation school founded.

Political career

Berg first joined the peasant leader YES Hansen. Through labor, expertise and quick wit mountain rose to within the Liberal leader of the radical group. From 1878, Berg was in the "People's Venstre " (Det folke celled Venstre ) to find, which was first weakened, as a mountain in 1879 agreed to a reinforcement of the Copenhagen naval fortress. 1884 came the break between the liberal party leaders. Berg founded Det danske Venstre, a consortium of national Venstre and moderates, while his opponents Viggo Hørup and Edvard Brandes formed the group of radicals. This won the following elections to influence so that Berg's constructive opposition work was difficult.

1883 to 1887 he was President of the Folketing. In 1886, the different wings of Venstre closed under Berg's leadership back together, but the internal disagreements continued. Founded in 1873 by mountain Copenhagen party organ Morgenbladet was therefore converted into a public limited company, whose board both wings were represented.

After clashes with police at a political meeting in Holstebro mountain in 1886 was sentenced unconstitutional to six months in prison. The public sympathy even in the face of an extremely tense overall political situation were enormous. However, his influence within the party leadership went back. He now stood the initiated negotiations with the government hostile to the party chairmanship in 1887 and laid down. As early as 1890 he could know about half of the parliamentary faction behind him and in 1891 chairman of the Budget Committee again.

In his honor, memorial stones on Bogø (1897 ), the lighthouse Bovbjerg (1902 ) and in Kolding (1907 ) have been set.