Kristian Hansen Kofoed
{{Short description|Danish civil servant and politician (1879–1951)}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=May 2022}}
{{Infobox officeholder
| office = Finance Minister
| term_start = November 1942
| term_end = 5 May 1945
| primeminister = Erik Scavenius
| predecessor = Alsing Andersen
| successor = H. C. Hansen
| nationality = Danish
| party = Danish Social Liberal Party
| birth_date = 11 March 1879
| birth_place =
| death_date = {{death date and age|1951|5|14|1879|3|11|df=y}}
| image = Kristian Hansen Kofoed, født 11. marts 1879. Foto af omslag på bogen K. H. Kofoeds erindringer. Bogen er udgivet i 1979.jpg
| caption = Photo of Kristian Hansen Kofoed on cover of self-biography
}}
Kristian Hansen Kofoed, known as KH Kofoed, (1879–1951) was a Danish civil servant and politician who served as the finance minister in the period 1942–1945.
Biography
Kofoed was born on 11 March 1879.{{cite web|author=Hans Kirchhoff|title=K.H. Kofoed|language=da |url=https://denstoredanske.lex.dk/K.H._Kofoed|publisher=Den Store Danske|access-date=25 December 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211225172441/https://denstoredanske.lex.dk/K.H._Kofoed|archive-date=25 December 2021|date=19 October 2010}} He received a degree in biology.
He was a member of the Danish Parliament for the Danish Social Liberal Party between 1913 and 1920.{{cite thesis|author=Jacob Halvas Bjerre|title=Excluding the Jews: The Aryanization of Danish-German Trade and German Anti-Jewish Policy in Denmark 1937-1943|location=Copenhagen Business School|page=289|url=https://www.econstor.eu/handle/10419/209091|issn=0906-6934|degree=PhD|isbn=9788793744356
|year=2018|hdl=10419/209091}} From 1916 he served in the commissions for the salary negotiations with the central union.{{cite journal|author=Ludvig Goldschmidt Pedersen|title=The Rise of Scientific Virtues in the Danish Central Administration: From Anti-parliamentarism to Objective Expertise|journal=Scandinavian Studies
|date=Winter 2020|volume=92|issue=4|page=468|doi=10.5406/scanstud.92.4.0461|s2cid=225095742 }} In 1924 he was appointed permanent secretary of the Ministry of Finance led by Carl Valdemar Bramsnæs.{{cite web|title=Carl Valdemar Bramsnæs, 1879-1965|url=https://danmarkshistorien.dk/leksikon-og-kilder/show/materiale/carl-valdemar-bramsnaes-1879-1965/?no_cache=1&tx_historyview_pi1%5Blang%5D=1|publisher=Danmarks Historien|access-date=25 December 2021|language=da}} Kofoed's appointment led to some controversy in that this post had been assumed by non-political figures who had a degree in law.
During the occupation of Denmark by Nazi Germany the Germans demanded the appointment of a new finance minister. Upon this request in November 1942 Kofoed was named minister of finance to the cabinet led by Prime Minister Erik Scavenius, replacing Alsing Andersen in the post. Kofoed remained in office until 5 May 1945 when H. C. Hansen was appointed finance minister.{{cite web|title=Tidligere finansministre|publisher=Finansministriet
|url=https://fm.dk/ministeriet/finansministeriets-historie/tidligere-finansministre/|access-date=25 December 2021
|archive-date=23 November 2021|language=da|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211123041053/https://fm.dk/ministeriet/finansministeriets-historie/tidligere-finansministre/}}
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Category:20th-century Danish biologists
Category:Ministers for finance of Denmark