 He was an amateur archaeologist and outdoors man who enjoyed excavating the Bronze Age burial mounds in the surrounding woodland and sleeping in his tent.However, his presence also required the grand railway station still in use today, in order to meet and greet foreign dignitaries.In 1910 the Danish social democrat leader and later Prime Minister, Thorvald Stauning invited the Second Socialt International meeting in Copenhagen to visit Skodsborg.