Nina Bang

Nina Henriette Wendeline Ellinger Bang ( born October 6, 1866 in Copenhagen, † March 25, 1928 ibid ) was a Danish social-democratic politician and the first female Danish Minister.

Nina Ellinger was the daughter of conservative music director ( rod horn ) and War Council Ellinger. She studied history and finished her studies in 1894. In 1895 she married the historian Gustav Bang, who died in 1915. Even as a student she joined the Social Democratic Party. She was from 1903 to 1928 a member of the party executive in the Social Democratic Federation and from 1918 a member of the county council, the first chamber of the Reichstag. Nina Bang worked as a journalist for the main body of the Danish Social Democrats " social democrats", where they edited political, historical and economic issues; inter alia, she wrote a biography of Karl Marx ( " Karl Marx, his life and work "). From 1913 to 1918, she was city councilor in Copenhagen, and on April 23, 1924 to December 14, 1926 to the Minister for Education in the Cabinet of Thorvald Stauning. In the last years of her life she devoted herself to a historico-economic work; a study on the scope and effect of the Öresund Zolles ( "Tables about the shipping and transportation of goods by the Oeresund 1497-1660 "). In 1928 she died of a heart condition.