Wolfgang von Haffner was a Danish military officer and politician.

He was born in Valby

Valby

' is one of the 10 official districts of Copenhagen, Denmark. Located in the southwestern corner of Copenhagen Municipality, it is a heterogeneous mixture of different types of housing - including apartment blocks, terraced housing, areas with single-family houses and allotments, as well as remains...

 as a son of Johan Wolfgang Reinhold Haffner and a nephew of Adam Mogens Wenzel Haffner. In November 1832 he married Sophie Wilhelmine Caroline Krieger (1807–1889). He had a military career in his early life, being second lieutenant

Second Lieutenant

Second lieutenant is a junior commissioned officer military rank in many armed forces.- United Kingdom and Commonwealth :The rank second lieutenant was introduced throughout the British Army in 1871 to replace the rank of ensign , although it had long been used in the Royal Artillery, Royal...

 at the age of 15. He became chamberlain

Chamberlain (office)

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 in 1847 and general

General

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 à la suite

À la suite

À la suite was a military title, given to those who were entitled to wear a regimental uniform but otherwise had no official position. It can best be translated as "in the entourage of".In Prussia, these were:...

 in 1871.

He was a member of the Danish Landsting

Landsting

Landsting can mean*Thing - the supreme assembly of a land in Scandinavia, during Viking and mediaeval times*The Parliament of Greenland.*Landstinget - one of the two houses of the Danish parliament between 1849 and 1953...

 from 1866 to his death. He became the Interior Ministers of Denmark in the Cabinet of Frijs on 22 September 1869, and held this position until 28 May 1870 when the cabinet fell. He immediately joined the new Cabinet of Holstein-Holsteinborg, as both War Minister and Navy Minister. He left in 1872 due to disagreements with the Finance Minister, Andreas Frederik Krieger

Andreas Frederik Krieger

Andreas Frederik Krieger was a Danish politician, government minister, professor of law and supreme court judge...

. In 11 June 1875, when the Cabinet of Estrup assumed office, Haffner returned to both his posts. He left on 28 July 1877.

He was decorated with the Grand Cross of the Order of the Dannebrog

Order of the Dannebrog

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 in 1877, and was ranked as Class 1 in the Danish order of precedence

Order of precedence

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 from 1880. He died in April 1887 in 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...

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