Peter Sabroe was a Danish journalist, politician, and children's rights advocate.

Sabroe was born near Silkeborg

Silkeborg

Silkeborg is a city in central Denmark. Located in Silkeborg municipality in Jutland, the city has a population of 42,724 . The development of Silkeborg as a modern city may be traced to the foundation of the paper mill by Michael Drewsen on the Gudenaa in 1844...

, but moved to Copenhagen

Copenhagen

Copenhagen is the capital and largest city of Denmark, with an urban population of 1,199,224 and a metropolitan population of 1,930,260 . With the completion of the transnational Øresund Bridge in 2000, Copenhagen has become the centre of the increasingly integrating Øresund Region...

 as a 14 year old to take up an apprenticeship as a shoemaker. He soon became a social democrat and a member of a group of radicals called the Karl Marx Club. In 1887, he became a journalist at a provincial newspaper, in Randers

Randers

Randers is a city in Randers municipality on the Jutland peninsula in central Denmark. It is Denmark's sixth-largest city, with a population of 60,656 . Randers city is the main town of the municipality and the site of its municipal council.-Overview:Randers municipality has 94,750 inhabitants...

, moving the next year to the paper Demokraten in the larger town Aarhus

Aarhus

Aarhus or Århus is the second-largest city in Denmark. The principal port of Denmark, Aarhus is on the east side of the peninsula of Jutland in the geographical center of Denmark...

, where he eventually served as editor, from 1895 to 1908. Moving then to Kolding

Kolding

Kolding is a Danish seaport located at the head of Kolding Fjord in Region of Southern Denmark . It is the site of the council Kolding Municipality. It is a transportation, commercial, and manufacturing centre, and has numerous industrial companies, principally geared towards shipbuilding...

, he became editor of the Kolding Socialdemokrat from 1908 to 1910. He ended his life in Copenhagen, where he worked at the Social-Demokraten from 1910 to 1913.

Sabroe first took an elected office in 1900, as a member of the Aarhus town council, a position he held until 1909. He also served in the Folketinget, from 1901 to 1913. As a politician, Sabroe took the part of the common man, and was perhaps the best known and most controversial left-wing legislator of his time. He often traveled around Denmark, drawing attention to the conditions in which children lived and worked.

Sabroe died in the Bramminge train accident

Bramminge train accident

In the Bramminge train accident near Bramming, Denmark on 26 July 1913, a train derails due to heat-stressed rails. There are 15 deaths,among whom Peter Sabroe, and about 80 people are injured....

in 1913. After his death, a fund was raised in his honor, and used to maintain a children's home. Every year, a prize is awarded in his honor (the Peter Sabroe prize) to persons or institutions who have made an important contribution to improving the lives of children in Denmark.

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