Erik Scavenius
Erik Julius Christian Scavenius (13 July 1877 – 29 November 1962) was the Danish foreign minister 1909–1910, 1913–1920 and 1940–1943, and prime minister from 1942 to 1943. His cabinet resigned in 1943 and suspended operations. The resignation was never formally accepted by the King so the cabinet existed de jure until a new one was formed following the Liberation of Denmark on 5 May 1945. Scavenius was a member of the Landsting 1918–1920 and 1925–1927 representing the Social Liberal Party. He was chairman of its party organization 1922–1924.
Famous quotes containing the word erik:
“In any case, raw aggression is thought to be the peculiar province of men, as nurturing is the peculiar province of women.... The psychologist Erik Erikson discovered that, while little girls playing with blocks generally create pleasant interior spaces and attractive entrances, little boys are inclined to pile up the blocks as high as they can and then watch them fall down: “the contemplation of ruins,” Erikson observes, “is a masculine specialty.””
—Joyce Carol Oates (b. 1938)