Christian X of Denmark

Christian X (born Christian Carl Frederik Albert Alexander Vilhelm , born the September 26th 1870 with the palate of Charlottenlund close to Copenhagen - died the April 20th 1947) with the castle of Amalienborg.

He was king of Denmark May 14th 1912 with the April 20th 1947, and of Iceland of 1918 with 1944.

Family

Wire of the king Frederic VIII and Louise of Sweden.

Marriage and descent

The April 26th 1898, Christian X of Denmark married with Cannes the princess Alexandrine de Mecklenburg-Schwerin (1879 - 1952), (girl of the large-duke Friedrich Franz III von Mecklenburg-Schwerin).

Two children were born from this union:

the future Frederic IX (1899 - 1972)
Knud (1900 - 1976), in 1933, it married Caroline Mathilde of Denmark (1912 - 1995), (girl of Harald of Denmark)

Biography

Christian X of Denmark reigned at the time of the two World wars. He was the symbol of heroism and of Danish nationalism, its resistance to the Nazis did of him one of the Danish monarchs most popular of modern monarchy.

Reign

Crisis of Easter

In April 1920, Christian X of Denmark of the Crisis of Easter, perhaps was the instigator most decisive in the evolution of Danish monarchy at the XXème century. The main cause was the bursting of a conflict between the king and the cabinet during the reunification of the septentrional Schleswig to the Denmark, old Danish stronghold lost with the profit of the Prussia at the time of the first war of Schleswig (February 1st 1864 - October 30th 1864). Denmark asserted this area of 1864 with 1918, the defeat of the Germans made it possible to settle this disagreement. According to the terms of the treated of Versailles (June 28th 1919), two plebiscites were to rule on the fate of Schleswig; one in septentrional Schleswig (today Jutland of the south in Denmark), the other in the center of Schleswig (today part of the German State). No plebiscite was planned for Schleswig of the South dominated by a German ethnic majority. At the end of the First World War it made party of the German State.

In the North of Schleswig 70% of the voters voted in favor of the reunification with Denmark and 25% voted for the Germany. In this vote, the whole of Schleswig of North was regarded as an indivisible whole, totality was allotted to Denmark (1919). In the center of Schleswig, the situation was opposite, 80% of the voters were favorable to Germany and 20% to Denmark. In this vote, each municipality decided on its own future, a large majority of Germans populated the whole of the center of Schleswig.

During the German occupation during the Second world war, Christian X remains in his capital among its people. Although septuagénaire, it traverses each day the city with horse. He is opposed firmly to discriminatory measurements of the Nazis with regard to the population Jew of Denmark and threat the Germans to be the first citizen to carry yellow star if the port were imposed to the Jews by it.

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