Tinglev

Tinglev (German: Tingleff) is a town with a population of 2,729 (1 January 2014)^[1] in Aabenraa Municipality in Region of Southern Denmark on the Jutland peninsula in south Denmark.

From 1866-1920 Tinglev was part of the Prussian Province of Schleswig-Holstein, and formed a part of Imperial Germany. Notable figures born there include Hjalmar Schacht, a liberal economist who introduced a wide variety of schemes in Germany before and during The Third Reich in order to tackle the effects that the Great Depression had on that country, and was a key player in Nazi-Germany's economic steps towards re-armament.

Until 1 January 2007 Tinglev was also a municipality (Danish: kommune) in the former South Jutland County. The municipality covered an area of 326 km² (126 sq mi), and has a total population of 10,148 (2005). Its last mayor was Susanne Beier, a member of the Venstre (Liberal Party) political party. The municipality was created in 1970 due to a kommunalreform ("Municipality Reform") that combined a number of existing parishes:

Bjolderup Parish
Burkal Parish
Bylderup Parish
Ravsted Parish
Tinglev Parish
Uge Parish

Tinglev municipality ceased to exist as the result of Kommunalreformen ("The Municipality Reform" of 2007). It was merged with Bov, Lundtoft, Rødekro, and Aabenraa municipalities to form a new Aabenraa municipality. This created a municipality with an area of 951 square kilometres (367 sq mi) and a total population of 60,151 (2005).

Notable people

Hjalmar Schacht (1877 in Tinglev – 1970) (see above), a German economist, banker and German politician
Jane Schumacher (born 1988 in Tinglev) a Danish team handball player

References

^ "BEF44: Population 1st January, by urban areas" database from Statistics Denmark

External links

54°56′N 9°15′E / 54.933°N 9.250°E / 54.933; 9.250

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[1] "BEF44: Population 1st January, by urban areas" database from Statistics Denmark

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