Ella Gudrun Ingeborg Holleufer (1906 - December 4, 1954) was married to the three time Prime Minister of Denmark

Prime Minister of Denmark

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, Hans Hedtoft

Hans Hedtoft

Hans Hedtoft Hansen was Prime Minister of Denmark from 13 November 1947 to 30 October 1950 as the leader of the Cabinet of Hans Hedtoft I and again from 30 September 1953 to 29 January 1955 as the leader of the Cabinet of Hans Hedtoft II.Hedtoft was a Social Democrat, and had taken over the...

.

She was born in Aarhus

Aarhus

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 in Denmark

Denmark

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 as the daughter of the baker

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 August Holleufer, and her mother Dorthea Marie was one of the leading suffragette

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s in Denmark at the end of the 19th Century.

Ella Hedtoft died after suffering from Addison's disease

Addison's disease

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 for years and was buried at Vestre Kirkegård

Vestre Cemetery

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 in Copenhagen

Copenhagen

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, in a section where leading social democrats

Social democracy

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and members of the workers unions are buried.

Sources

• Leif Thorsen: Hans Hedtoft - En biografi. Odense Universitetsforlag 1998.
• The Holleufer Family (article written by journalist Torben Holleufer, Copenhagen, Denmark - son of Jørgen Holleufer, nephew of Hans & Ella Hedtoft).