Tinglev

Notable figures born there include Hjalmar Schacht, a liberal economist who introduced a wide variety of schemes in Germany before and during The Third Reich to tackle the effects that the Great Depression had on that country, and was a key player in Nazi Germany's economic steps towards re-armament.

• Settlement Type — Town • Name — Tinglev • Image Skyline — Tinglev Kirke1.JPG • Image Caption — Tinglev Church from around 1100. • Pushpin Map — Denmark#Denmark Region of Southern Denmark • Pushpin Map Caption — Location in Denmark • Subdivision Type — Country • Subdivision Name — Denmark • Subdivision Type1 — Region • Subdivision Name1 — Southern Denmark • Subdivision Type2 — Municipality • Subdivision Name2 — Aabenraa Municipality • Subdivision Type3 — Parish • Subdivision Name3 — Tinglev Parish • Area Urban Km2 — 3.1 • Population As Of — 2026 • Population Urban — 2761 • Population Density Urban Km2 — auto • Timezone1 — CET • Utc Offset1 — +1 • Timezone1 Dst — CEST • Utc Offset1 Dst — +2 • Postal Code Type — Postal code • Postal Code — DK-6360 Tinglev Tinglev (Tingleff) is a town with a population of 2,761 (1 January 2026) in Aabenraa Municipality in Region of Southern Denmark on the Jutland peninsula in south Denmark. Tinglev is a base for German minority institutions in Southern Jutland, the minority Schleswig Party receiving 14.8% of the town's vote in the municipal elections of 2025. From 1866 until 1920, Tinglev was part of the Prussian Province of Schleswig-Holstein and formed a part of Imperial Germany. Notable figures born there include Hjalmar Schacht, a liberal economist who introduced a wide variety of schemes in Germany before and during The Third Reich to tackle the effects that the Great Depression had on that country, and was a key player in Nazi Germany's economic steps towards re-armament.

Until 1 January 2007, Tinglev was also a municipality (Danish: kommune) in the former South Jutland County. The city covered an area of 326 km2, with a total population of 10,148 (2005). Its last mayor was Susanne Beier, a member of the Venstre (Liberal Party) political party. The municipality was created in 1970 due to a kommunalreform ("Municipality Reform") that combined several existing parishes: • Bjolderup Parish • Burkal Parish • Bylderup Parish • Ravsted Parish • Tinglev Parish • Uge Parish Tinglev municipality ceased to exist due to the Kommunalreformen ("The Municipality Reform" of 2007). It was merged with Bov, Lundtoft, Rødekro, and Aabenraa municipalities to form the new Aabenraa Municipality. This created a municipality with an area of 951 km2 and a total population of 60,151 (2005).

• Illustration — Jane Schumacher, 2016 • Hjalmar Schacht (1877 in Tingleff – 1970) was a German economist, banker and politician • Jens Jessen (1895 in Tingleff - 1944) was a German economist, national socialist and resistance fighter • Jane Schumacher (born 1988 in Tinglev) is a Danish team handball player • Line Vedel Hansen (born 1989), a Danish professional golfer, lives in Tinglev

The adventure role-playing game Gerda: A Flame in Winter, developed by Copenhagen-based games studio PortaPlay and published in 2022 by Don't Nod, is set entirely in Tinglev and the surrounding countryside. The game's story was inspired by the life of director Hans Von Knut Skovfoged's half-German, half-Danish grandmother who contributed to the Resistance against the Nazis.