Terp, Holger: Danish Peace History - Det danske Fredsakademi

During this debate the first liberal party the Society of Friends of the Farmers, was
created 78 , with the pacifist teacher and politician Lars Bjørnbak (1826-1878) as one of
the leaders. In 1870 the Christian Lars Bjørnbak was the author of the first pacific
protest to the parliament. Bjørnbak was active in the Danish Folk High School
movement.
Journalist, publisher and liberal politician Viggo Hørup (1841-1902) is unknown
outside Scandinavia, though he was the most important Danish anti-militarist
politician in the last part of the 19th. century, when Denmark 1849 to 1894 was a
militarised police state.
Viggo Hørup introduced the concept militarism in the debate over the fortification of
Copenhagen and asked the simple but powerful question in the parliament: What
should it [the military] benefit? As a part in the political struggle between the
nationalists and the liberals, Hørup and journalist Edvard Brandes (1847-1934)
founded the newspaper Politiken 1884 of which Hørup became the chief editor. The
liberals founded many newspapers to conquer the public opinion 79 .
78 Bondevennernes Selskab.
Det radikale Venstres Historie / edited by Gunnar Fog-Petersen. Odense : Kulturhistorisk Forlag, 1938.
79 Arup, Erik: Viggo Hørup, 1941. Hørup i breve og digte : Breve, digte og litterære prosastykker til
belysning af Viggo Hørup og hans kreds / Publisher Karsten Thorborg, 1981. Krog, Torben : Viggo
Hørup, 1984.