Andreas Frederik Krieger

Andreas Frederik Krieger (1817 to 1893) was a Danish politician, government minister, professor of law and supreme court judge. Born at Kolbjørnsvik in Norway and raised in Copenhagen, he took his law degree at the age of twenty, specializing in constitutional law, and was professor of law at the University of Copenhagen from 1845 to 1855, lecturing mainly on civil law. He sat in the constitutional assembly of 1848 and 1849 and the Folketing from 1849 to 1852 for the National Liberal Party, was Minister for Interior Affairs from 1856, and in 1872 was Justice Minister briefly and then Finance Minister until 1874, when he oversaw Denmark joining the Scandinavian Monetary Union. A member of the Landsting from 1863 to 1890, he was acquitted by the Court of Impeachment in 1877.