Nina Bang

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Nina Bang
Minister of Education
In office
23 April 1924 – 14 December 1926
Prime MinisterThorvald Stauning
Preceded byJacob Appel
Succeeded byJens Byskov
Personal details
Born
Nina Henriette Wendeline Ellinger

(1866-10-06)6 October 1866
Kastellet, Copenhagen, Denmark
Died25 March 1928(1928-03-25) (aged 61)
Copenhagen, Denmark
Resting placeBispebjerg Cemetery
Political partySocial Democrats
Spouse
Gustav Bang
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(m. 1895; died 1915)​
ChildrenMerete
Parent(s)Heinrich August David Ellinger
Charlotte Ida Friedericke Preuss
RelativesH.O.G. Ellinger
EducationHistory
Alma materUniversity of Copenhagen
CabinetStauning I

Nina Henriette Wendeline Bang née Ellinger (6 October 1866 – 25 March 1928) was a

ministers
. She resigned as minister in 1926.

Biography

Bang was born and died in

Oresund and the type and value of their cargo throughout centuries as unique historical documents to the economic history of England, the Netherlands, the Hanseatic League and the Baltic states.[3][4]
Analyzing the large amount of documents was a huge project, and she published the first two volumes of Tabeller over Skibsfart og Varetransport gennem Øresund (English: Tables of Shipping and Transport of Goods through the Sound) in 1906 and 1922. The project produced seven volumes in all, but Bang was responsible only for the first two.

Bang's political career began in 1903 when she became a member of the executive committee of the Social Democratic Party, where she was the only woman until the arrival of

Marie Nielsen in 1918: only three women had previously been members.[2] In the 1918 Landsting election—the first under the Constitution of 1915 which enfranchised women—she was elected to the Landsting, and she remained a member until her death in 1928. She was a member of the finance committee of the Landsting, and she participated in several international socialist conventions as a substitute for Thorvald Stauning.[5]

When Prime Minister Thorvald Stauning established his first government—the first Danish social democratic government, the Cabinet of Stauning I—in 1924, Bang was appointed Minister for Education, which made her the first female minister in Denmark and one of the first in the world.[2][5][6] Bang's primary ambitions as minister was to democratize the school system and to improve the teacher training.[2] Despite being the first woman to reach the top of the political system in Denmark, Bang never engaged in the women's movement but considered the situation of women a part of the regular political struggle, and criticised the right-wing women's movement for obscuring differences between the classes of society.[2][5]

Bang stirred up quite a commotion when at the 50th anniversary of the new building for the

Kong Kristian. When a group of students sang the anthem anyway, addressing it directly to King Christian X of Denmark, she refused to stand up as tradition dictated and as the entire audience did.[2][6] Some of the other ministers had trouble deciding whether to sit or stand, but only Bang remained fully seated.[6] As a politician, she was uncompromising and aggressive, characteristics that earned her the nicknames "Our Lady of Denmark" and "the only real man in the government".[7]

When Stauning's government resigned in 1926, Bang continued as a member of the Landsting, but due to illness her activity was limited. She died in 1928.

Posthumous honours

Notes


References

  1. ^ Thorsen, Svend (1972). De danske ministerier 1901-1929 (in Danish). Pensionsforsikringsanstalten, p. 426.
  2. ^ a b c d e f Christensen, Ann-Dorte; Bach, Tina Kjær. Nina Bang (in Danish). Dansk Kvindebiografisk Leksikon. Retrieved on 2008-02-22.
  3. ^ a b Christensen, Ann-Dorte. Nina Bang - political pioneer of the 20th century. Kvinfo, Notable Women. Retrieved on 2008-02-24.
  4. ^ Thorsen, p. 428.
  5. ^
    ISBN 87-11-11652-8
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  6. ^ a b c Thorsen, p. 438.
  7. ^ Danish: Vor Frue af Danmark and Regeringens eneste Mandfolk. Christensen; Bach.

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Preceded by
Education Minister of Denmark

23 April 1924 – 14 December 1926 		Succeeded by
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