Ludvig Holstein-Holsteinborg

Council President of Denmark

18 July 1815 Holsteinborg

28 April 1892(1892-04-28) (76) Copenhagen

28 May 1870 – 14 July 1874

Danish politician Holsteinborg Manor, 2010 Ludvig Henrik Carl Herman Holstein, Greve til Holsteinborg (18 July 1815 – 28 April 1892), was a Danish politician, landowner and noble. He was Council President of Denmark from 28 May 1870 to 14 July 1874 (4 years, 1 month, 16 days). Family He was born at Holsteinborg Manor in Slagelse, Denmark. Son of Friedrich Adolph Holstein, Count of Holsteinborg and Wilhelmine Juliane Reventlow, Holstein was a descendant of Ulrik Adolf Holstein (1664–1737) and was the 7th Count of Holsteinborg. In 1836 he enrolled at the University of Berlin but graduated from the University of Copenhagen. In 1850, Holstein married Bodild Joachimime Zahrtmann, the daughter of Navy Minister Admiral C.C. Zahrtmann. They had five children. She died in 1876. He married Betzy Laura Rasmussen in 1878, with whom he had one son. Premiership Although he was himself a member of the Centre Party (Danish: Mellempartiet), Holstein led a coalition between the National Landowners and the National Liberals. The ministry was dominated by its three National Liberal ministers, Carl Christian Hall, Andreas Frederik Krieger and Carl Emil Fenger. As Prime Minister, Holstein rarely put forward his own opinions; his role was so passive that editor Vilhelm Topsøe satirized him as "the topping on the Kransekake". In 1870, he received the Grand Cross of Order of the Dannebrog and was knighted in the Order of the Elephant. In 1862 he had become Dannebrogsmand and in 1872 he had received the Merit Medal in gold.