Knud Sehested

Knud Sehested

Knud Sehested (* 4 December 1850 at Gut Broholm at Gudme; † 28 August 1908 at Addithus near Brædstrup) was a Danish politician.

The son of archaeologist Niels Frederik Bernhard Sehested visited the Herlufsholm boarding school and then studied law. In 1876 he entered the Ministry of the Interior, initially as a volunteer, in 1878 as an assistant, in 1893 as an inspector, and in 1894 as head of the agricultural department. In 1896 he took over the leadership of the Ministry of Agriculture, which was newly created under Prime Minister's Day Reedtz-Thott, and became Denmark's first Minister of Agriculture. In his one-year term, he succeeded in enforcing important laws on land partitioning, export and trade of agricultural goods.

With the office of Hugo Egmont Hørring, he left the Ministry of Agriculture. In the following year, however, he became President of Landhusholdningsselskab and as such continued to have a significant influence on the development of Danish agriculture. In 1905, as a representative of Denmark, he took part in the founding of the International Agricultural Institute in Rome. In 1906 he took over the management of the Danish agricultural museum.

Sehested's brother Hannibal was also a politician and from 1900 to 1901 Danish Minister President, his sister Thyra historian and his sister Hilda pianist and composer. Edit sourcetext Standard data (person): LCCN: n82160565 VIAF: 279089795 | Wikipedia People Search | No GND person record. Last review: 6 May 2016.

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