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Tinglev is a town with a population of 2,729 in Aabenraa Municipality in Region of Southern Denmark on the Jutland peninsula in south Denmark.From 1866-1920 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 in order to tackle the effects that the Great Depression had on that country, and was a key player in the initial economic steps towards re-armament.Until 1 January 2007 Tinglev was also a municipality in the former South Jutland County. The municipality covered an area of 326km², and has a total population of 10,148 . Its last mayor was Susanne Beier, a member of the Venstre political party. The municipality was created in 1970 due to a kommunalreform that combined a number of existing parishes: Bjolderup Parish Burkal Parish Bylderup Parish Ravsted Parish Tinglev Parish Uge Parish Tinglev municipality ceased to exist as the result of Kommunalreformen . It was merged with Bov, Lundtoft, Rødekro, and Aabenraa municipalities to form a new Aabenraa municipality. This created a municipality with an area of 951km² and a total population of 60,151 .