Henri Konow

Henri Konow was a Danish naval officer, viceadmiral, and the last governor of the Danish West Indies, overseeing the transfer of administration to the United States of America following the Treaty of the Danish West Indies in 1916 under which the Kingdom of Denmark sold the islands now named the US Virgin Islands to the United States in exchange for US25,000,000 in gold.

Henri Konow was born onFebruary 1862 in Copenhagen, Denmark, the son of the diplomat and shipowner Hans Jacob Hesselberg Konow and Ida Marie West.

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