Sabroe was born near
Silkeborg in 1867. At the age of fourteen, he moved to
Copenhagen to take up an apprenticeship as a shoemaker. He soon became a
social democrat and a member of a group of young radicals called the
Karl Marx Club. In 1887, he became a journalist at a provincial newspaper, in
Randers, moving the next year to the paper
Demokraten in the larger town of
Aarhus. There he advanced to serve as editor, from 1895 to 1908. Moving to
Kolding, he was editor of the
Kolding Socialdemokrat from 1908 to 1910. After that he moved to Copenhagen, where he worked at the
Social-Demokraten from 1910 to 1913. He lived and worked in the capital for the rest of his life. Sabroe was first elected to political office in 1900, as a member of the Aarhus town council. He was re-elected and served until 1909. He also served in the
Folketinget, from 1901 to 1913. As a politician, Sabroe took the part of the common man; he was perhaps the best known and most controversial left-wing legislator of his time. He often traveled around Denmark, drawing attention to the conditions in which children lived and worked. Sabroe died in the
Bramminge train accident in 1913. ==Legacy==