Joachim Gersdorff (12 November 1611 – 19 April 1661) was a Danish politician from 1650 to 1660 Steward of the Danish Realm. It was Gersdorff who negotiated the Treaty of Roskilde on Denmark’s part during the Second Northern War a war he had himself been in favour of entering. The treaty which was concluded in Roskilde on 8 March 1658 (NS) ceded Scania Halland Blekinge and Bornholm to Sweden.
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