Kaufmann v Augustenborg Town Council

• Jurisdiction: Dinamarca
• Docket Number: Case No. 140
• Date: 07 June 1923
• Court: Southern Provincial Court (Denmark)

Denmark, Southern Provincial Court.

Case No. 140

Kaufmann

and

Augustenborg Town Council.

Nationality — Option — Form of Application —“Habitually Resident”— Article 113 of the Treaty of Versailles — Interpretation.

The Facts.—Article 113 of the Treaty of Versailles makes provision for the declaration of options for Danish and German nationality respectively in connection with the cession of Northern Schleswig to Denmark. The Danish Law No. 474 of 5 September, 1920 (Lovtidende, p. 1555), enacted to give effect to this Article, provided that persons who on 15 June, 1920, were...