Peter Rochegune Munch

Peter Rochegune Munch (born July 25, 1870, Redsted, Den.—died Jan. 12, 1948, Copenhagen) was a historian and politician who as Danish foreign minister in the 1930s attempted to maintain Danish neutrality and independence during the dictatorship of Adolf Hitler in Germany. After a career as a historian of modern Europe, Munch entered the Danish Parliament in 1909 as a member of the Radical Party. In the same year he became minister of the interior in...