Gråsten kommune

Shareholders of Gråsten Kommune

Gråsten Kommune had no shareholders and no share capital. It was a Danish municipality — a statutory public authority — and no ownership interest in it existed or could exist. Lov om Det Centrale Virksomhedsregister § 3 sets out the categories of juridisk enhed (legal unit) that the register covers, and nr. 6 is “en kommune” (a municipality), listed alongside state administrative units, regions and kommunale fællesskaber (municipal partnerships); § 5 stk. 3 provides that CVR numbers for those categories are assigned by Danmarks Statistik rather than by Erhvervsstyrelsen. Holding CVR number 33304811 therefore says nothing about share ownership, and does not make the entity a company.

A Danish municipality has no owners of any kind. Its residents and taxpayers are not shareholders, and the Danish state is not its owner: Danmarks Riges Grundlov § 82 provides that the right of municipalities to manage their own affairs independently, under the supervision of the state, is regulated by law — supervision, not ownership. No 25% beneficial-ownership threshold is applied on this page, because there is no ownership for such a threshold to measure.

Data availability

Classification: Full. The honest position is that the concepts of shareholder and beneficial owner do not apply to this entity at all, and no label in this scheme expresses that. Full is used because the ownership question is completely settled — a Danish municipality has no share capital, no shareholders and no beneficial owner — and because every alternative (Partial, Major shareholders only, Restricted, Not public, Not found) would wrongly suggest that a shareholder record exists and is incomplete, withheld or merely missing. Nothing about ownership is outstanding for Gråsten Kommune.

Separately, and not an ownership gap: the CVR entry for 33304811 itself could not be read. datacvr.virk.dk returned HTTP 403 with a Cloudflare “Just a moment…” JavaScript and cookie challenge to automated requests on 7 October 2026, so the register’s own values for the grunddata listed in lov om Det Centrale Virksomhedsregister § 11 — virksomhedsnavn (name), virksomhedsform (unit type), starttidspunkt (start date) and any ophørstidspunkt (end date) — are unverified here. A 403 is a blocked request, not a finding that no record exists.

Sources

Lov om Det Centrale Virksomhedsregister, consolidated as LBK nr. 246 af 5. februar 2026 (Erhvervsministeriet, accession A20260024629), §§ 1, 3, 5 and 11 — read on retsinformation.dk, the official Danish legal information portal, 7 October 2026.
Danmarks Riges Grundlov, lov nr. 169 af 5. juni 1953 (accession A19530016930), § 82 — retsinformation.dk, 7 October 2026.
Det Centrale Virksomhedsregister (CVR), Erhvervsstyrelsen, datacvr.virk.dk — access attempted for CVR number 33304811 on 7 October 2026; HTTP 403 Cloudflare challenge returned and no register data obtained.

Directors and officers of Gråsten Kommune

Gråsten Kommune had no directors, no officers and no board. It was governed by a kommunalbestyrelse (municipal council). Lov om kommunernes styrelse — the Danish municipal government act — provides in § 2 stk. 1 that municipalities’ affairs are governed by municipal councils elected under the act on municipal and regional elections. Under § 3 stk. 1 the council’s designation is, for every municipality other than Copenhagen, fixed in the municipality’s styrelsesvedtægt (governing statute), which is why many Danish councils are designated byråd (town council). Section 3 stk. 3 provides that the council’s chair is titled borgmester (mayor); § 6 stk. 2 has the council elect that chair from among its own members at its constituent meeting; and § 31 stk. 3 gives the chair the supreme day-to-day management of the municipal administration. The act does not provide for or name a kommunaldirektør (municipal director), so that post has no basis in this statute.

An elected councillor is a holder of public office under that act, not a company director, and is not described as one here. No current office-holder of Gråsten Kommune exists, and none can: the authority ceased to exist on 1 January 2007. Lov nr. 540 af 24. juni 2005 § 52 cancelled the council elections of 15 November 2005 in the municipalities taking part in an amalgamation and extended those councils’ terms by one year, from 1 January 2006 to 31 December 2006, so Gråsten Kommune’s final kommunalbestyrelse served until 31 December 2006. Under § 37 of the same act, municipal civil servants employed by the merging municipalities passed into the employment of the new municipality on 1 January 2007.

No individual is named on this page. None of the primary sources consulted names a person as a holder of office in Gråsten Kommune in their official capacity, and no name has been taken from any other source. Nationality, country of residence and correspondence address are three separate matters of record, and none has been inferred for anyone.

Data availability

Classification: Historical. Two separate points sit behind that label. First, company-style director and officer data does not apply to this entity at all: a Danish municipality has no board and files no officer register, so there is no corporate officer record to be had. Second, the office-holder information that did exist — the membership of the kommunalbestyrelse and the identity of the borgmester — can now only ever be historical, because the authority was abolished on 1 January 2007. Historical is chosen over Not found, Not public and Restricted because each of those would imply a current filing that is missing or withheld. The label describes the kind of record that could exist; it does not mean that names appear here, and none does, because none was established from an official record in this research.

Sources

Lov om kommunernes styrelse, consolidated as LBK nr. 13 af 5. januar 2026 (Indenrigs- og Sundhedsministeriet, accession A20260001329), §§ 2, 3, 6 and 31 — read on retsinformation.dk, the official Danish legal information portal, 7 October 2026.
Lov nr. 540 af 24. juni 2005 om revision af den kommunale inddeling (Indenrigs- og Sundhedsministeriet, accession A20050054030), §§ 37 and 52, published in Lovtidende A on 25 June 2005 — retsinformation.dk, 7 October 2026.
Rigsarkivet (the Danish National Archives), Daisy authority record “Gråsten Primærkommune”, existence dates 1970–2006 — consulted 7 October 2026.

Group structure of Gråsten Kommune

Gråsten Kommune had no parent company and was not a subsidiary of anything. A Danish municipality cannot sit inside a corporate group: it is a statutory public authority, and its relationship to the Danish state is constitutional rather than corporate. Danmarks Riges Grundlov § 82 provides that the right of municipalities to manage their own affairs independently, under the supervision of the state, is regulated by law — a relationship of supervision and statute, not of ownership or control of a subsidiary.

One relationship is verified from official records, and it is historical. Lov nr. 540 af 24. juni 2005 § 1 authorised a revision of the municipal division by forming new municipalities with effect from 1 January 2007, and § 2 stk. 1 required that revision to be carried out by amalgamating whole municipalities unless special circumstances applied. Bekendtgørelse nr. 656 af 29. juni 2005 § 4 nr. 16 — the schedule the minister was required by § 1 stk. 2 to issue by 1 July 2005, listing the 22 municipalities of Region Syddanmark — records that Sønderborg Kommune was formed on 1 January 2007 by the amalgamation of Augustenborg, Broager, Gråsten, Nordborg, Sønderborg, Sundeved and Sydals Kommuner, with 31 members elected to its kommunalbestyrelse at the election of 15 November 2005. Under § 36 of the 2005 act, the councils of the new municipalities assumed on 1 January 2007 the rights and obligations acquired and undertaken by the councils of the amalgamating municipalities, and the new municipalities took over their assets and liabilities.

This is succession by statute, and it is not an acquisition and not a merger of companies. No consideration was paid and no shares changed hands, because there were no shares; a ministerial order made under an act of the Folketing abolished seven municipalities and constituted one new municipality in their place, and the passing of assets and liabilities followed by operation of § 36 rather than from any agreement. The six other authorities named above stand in exactly the same relationship to Sønderborg Kommune as Gråsten Kommune does; none of them was a parent, subsidiary or affiliate of any other. The successor is a distinct legal unit with its own CVR number, 29 18 97 73, which its own official website publishes.

On the other side of its existence, Gråsten Kommune was itself constituted as a primærkommune in the municipal reform of 1970: lov nr. 540 af 24. juni 2005 § 48 records that the country’s primary-municipal division immediately before the 2007 reform was the division fixed by bekendtgørelse nr. 62 af 27. februar 1970 om landets inddeling i amtskommuner og kommuner, and Rigsarkivet dates the authority “Gråsten Primærkommune” to 1970–2006. No primary source consulted for this page attributes any constitutive event to 29 April 1966, the incorporation date the record carries.

Data availability

Classification: Historical. No current group relationship can exist, because the entity was abolished on 1 January 2007, and no corporate group relationship ever existed, because a municipality is not a company and has neither parent nor subsidiaries. The single verified relationship is the statutory succession into Sønderborg Kommune on 1 January 2007, which is sourced to the ministerial order and the act below. Historical is chosen over Not found and Not public because the relationship is established from primary sources rather than missing or withheld.

Sources

Lov nr. 540 af 24. juni 2005 om revision af den kommunale inddeling (Indenrigs- og Sundhedsministeriet, accession A20050054030), §§ 1, 2, 36, 47, 48 and 52; published in Lovtidende A on 25 June 2005, in force from 26 June 2005 under § 47, and recorded on retsinformation.dk as historical since 25 January 2024 — read on retsinformation.dk, the official Danish legal information portal, 7 October 2026.
Bekendtgørelse nr. 656 af 29. juni 2005 om revision af den kommunale og regionale inddeling og om forpligtende kommunale samarbejder (Indenrigs- og Sundhedsministeriet, accession B20050065605), § 4 nr. 16, in force 1 July 2005 under § 14 — retsinformation.dk, 7 October 2026.
Danmarks Riges Grundlov, lov nr. 169 af 5. juni 1953 (accession A19530016930), § 82 — retsinformation.dk, 7 October 2026.
Sønderborg Kommune, official municipal website, published CVR number 29 18 97 73 — consulted 7 October 2026.
Rigsarkivet (the Danish National Archives), Daisy authority record “Gråsten Primærkommune”, existence dates 1970–2006 — consulted 7 October 2026.