Claus Hjort Frederiksen
Claus Hjort Frederiksen | |
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| Member of the Folketing | |
| Assumed office 8 February 2005 | |
| Constituency | North Zealand (from 2007) København (2005-2007) |
| Minister of Defence | |
| In office 28 November 2016 – 27 June 2019 | |
| Prime Minister | Lars Løkke Rasmussen |
| Preceded by | Peter Christensen |
| Succeeded by | Trine Bramsen |
| Minister of Finance | |
| In office 28 June 2015 – 28 November 2016 | |
| Prime Minister | Lars Løkke Rasmussen |
| Preceded by | Bjarne Corydon |
| Succeeded by | Kristian Jensen |
| In office 7 April 2009 – 3 October 2011 | |
| Prime Minister | Lars Løkke Rasmussen |
| Preceded by | Lars Løkke Rasmussen |
| Succeeded by | Bjarne Corydon |
| Minister for Employment | |
| In office 27 November 2001 – 7 April 2009 | |
| Prime Minister | Anders Fogh Rasmussen |
| Preceded by | |
| Succeeded by | Inger Støjberg |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 4 September 1947 Copenhagen, Denmark |
| Political party | Venstre |
| Alma mater | University of Copenhagen |
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Claus Hjort Frederiksen (born 4 September 1947) is a Danish politician of the Venstre party, who served as the Danish Minister for Defence from 2016 to 2019, and as Minister for Finance from 2015 to 2016, having previously served in that position from 2009 to 2011, as member of the first Løkke Rasmussen Cabinet. From 2001 to 2009, he was Minister of Employment in the first, second, and third cabinets of Anders Fogh Rasmussen.
He is a member of the liberal party Venstre. He has been a member of parliament (Folketinget) since 2005.[1]
Political career[]
Frederiksen served as party secretary of Venstre 1985–2001, and as such he served as Fogh Rasmussen's closest advisor in creating the political program that eventually led to Fogh Rasmussen's ascent to the office of Prime Minister. The political program involved a closer relationship and dependency on the Danish People's Party and Frederiksen has notedly remarked that there exists a special community of values between said party and Venstre.[2][3]
Frederiksen was first elected into the Folketing in the 2005 election, and was reelected in the following elections in 2007, 2011, 2015 and 2019.[1]
Controversies[]
In 2009 radio journalist Jesper Tynell won the Cavling Prize for a series of 15 radio spots in DR P1's ”Orientering” showing [the]"minister's less democratic methods". Among the revelations were:
- Claus Hjort Frederiksen (as Minister of Employment) gave the parliament false information.
- The Minister abolished the requirements to foreign worker safety in dangerous jobs - in secret and outside parliament.
- The Ministry asked the municipal administers to rule (the so-called 300-hour rule) in an illegal manner.
- The Ministry ordered misleading figures from Arbejdsmarkedsstyrelsen to turn the public debate to their advantage.
- Officials deleted incriminating documents from the Ministry's own archives.[4][5]
References[]
- ^ Jump up to: a b "Claus Hjort Frederiksen". Ft.dk. Retrieved 7 February 2021.
- ^ "Kabalen". Information.dk. Retrieved 7 February 2021.
- ^ "Lars gør Løkke hos Fogh". Bt.dk. Retrieved 7 February 2021.
- ^ Prismodtagere Archived 2010-03-26 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ DR P1 Orienterings webside med radioprogrammerne og Tynells metoderapport Archived 2011-11-27 at the Wayback Machine
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