Jacob Christensen

Swan – next to Hans Christan Andersen statue, originally uploaded by jacobchristensen.

The Swan had made it into the central pedestrian street in Odense (some way from Odense Å) and rested next to … the statue of Hans Christian Andersen.

From the Department of Unnecessary Knowledge (or perhaps not), the obervation that the last time a Liberal Prime Minister took over after another Liberal Prime Minister was on August 16, 1909 when Ludvig Hostein-Ledreborg formed a government after Niels Th. Neergaard had been forced to resign due to conflicts over defence policy in the Liberal Party.

Niels Neergaard in his turn had taken over after J.C. Christensen in October 1908 after Christensen, the de facto leader of the Liberals, had been forced to resign after a scandal involving the former Justice Minister P.A. Alberti. Holstein-Ledreborg as voted out of office in October 1909 by a majority of Conservatives, Social Liberals and Social Democrats.

So what we are seeing today is the first peaceful transition from one Liberal to another.