Severin de Junge
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Severin de Junge (28 November 1680 - 14 October 1757) was a Danish government official, Supreme Court justice and director of the Danish West India Company. During his time this was Denmark–Norway. On 6 April 1731, he was ennobled under the name de Junge. He owned Sonnerupgaard and Skullerupgård but economic difficulties forced him to sell both estates in the second half of the 1740s.
Junge was the son of War Commissioner and kammerråd Emanuel de June (1644–1692) and Bodil Sørensdatter Hiort (c. 1650–1724). He was appointed hofjunker in 1701 and the following year studied at Oxford University.
Career
Junge was in 1710 appointed as staff secretary of the later general and in 1720 elected for the important post as deputy of the Army's General Commission (deputeret i landetatens general kommissariat). He served as Supreme Court justice in 1715–35 and was an extraordinary member of the Supreme Court Commission in 1731–34, He was in 1723 elected as principal participant (hovedparticipant) of the Danish West India Company and in 1727 as the company's managing director.[1]