Reunification
100 years ago Southern Jutland and Denmark were reunited. Learn more about what happened and take a look at our collections.
See our wonderful voting pamphlets, photographs and party programmes - and learn more! We are putting a spotlight on the Reunification.
Introduction
![Signature text for the Reunification 1920](https://www.kb.dk/sites/default/files/styles/630_415/public/2020-04/genforeningen-frontpage2020.jpg?itok=sNRStCRT)
Many of us probably all feel a strong need to be reunited with family and colleagues. 100 years ago, Southern Jutland and Denmark were reunited. Learn more.
Timeline
![HP Hanssen gives a speech from the balcony in Folkehjem on November 17, 1918.](https://www.kb.dk/sites/default/files/styles/630_415/public/2020-04/genforening-tidslinje-09.jpg?h=4eab919a&itok=RBsRZX7b)
Get a timeline of the events that led to the Reunification of Southern Jutland and Denmark in 1920.
School and the children
![Classroom at Højer School](https://www.kb.dk/sites/default/files/styles/630_415/public/2020-09/f_0063.jpg?h=389ebfa7&itok=BCpUCBjE)
With the Reunification, the students in Southern Jutland suddenly lived in another country with a new king, a different language and a different mentality. They were Danish. Except those who were not.
Women's fight
![Two South Jutland women, each with their child on their lap](https://www.kb.dk/sites/default/files/styles/630_415/public/2020-05/kvindekamp-danskheden-01.jpg?h=0289bc04&itok=ylIOI03T)
We often call our language the mother tongue. In North Schleswig, mothers were crucial in keeping Danish culture alive. They became even more important during World War I.
Cultural rearmament
![Dannebrog waves over a fjord landscape in southern Jutland](https://www.kb.dk/sites/default/files/styles/630_415/public/2020-05/topbillede.jpg?h=0d9532e4&itok=WHT4hP0_)
It was not gunpowder and bullets that won the battle for Southern Jutland. Instead, the weapons were pen and paper, road signs and burial mounds, dream visions and voter associations.