Vilhelm Buhl

Vilhelm Buhl (born Oct. 16, 1881, Fredericia, Den.—died Dec. 18, 1954, Copenhagen) was twice the prime minister of Denmark (1942, 1945), whose opposition to cooperation with Nazi Germany during his first term of office resulted in his dismissal by the Germans. After serving as collector of taxes for Copenhagen in the 1920s, Buhl, an active member of the Social Democratic Party, entered parliament in 1937. In the same year he became finance minister under Thorvald...