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From: Jim Eggert <>
Subject: Re: GENEALOGY
Date: Wed, 21 May 1997 13:37:37 GMT
In-Reply-To: Jeanette Haar Larsen's message of Tue, 20 May 1997 15:22:56 +0200


In article <c=DK%a=_%p=KU%l=> Jeanette Haar Larsen <> writes:
> My father Johann Christian Haar is 91 years old, and he was born in
> Haderslev, which was a town in a part of Denmark which Germany took over
> in 1864 after a war. Some of the old land was returned in 1920, and then
> Haderslev was Danish again.

Actually Haderslev (German: Hadersleben) is in North Schleswig, a part
of the duchy of Schleswig, which, although under the Danish crown, was
not part of the kingdom of Denmark. Schleswig was a fief of Denmark.
It was the attempt to incorporate Schleswig into Denmark, under the
Eider Program, that precipitated the uprising against the Danish
crown and intervention by Prussian troops during a three-year
rebellion in 1848-1851. Agreements in 1851 and 1852 pledged the
Danish government to abandon its policy of annexation, but its
unilateral reversal of those agreements in 1863 in the form of the
November constitution precipitated the war of 1864 between Denmark on
one side and Prussia and Austria on the other. Seven years later,
Germany was formed.

You should be able to find a discussion of this in any good
encyclopedia.
--
=Jim Eggert

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