Oluf Pedersen (politician)

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Oluf Pedersen (6 September 1891 in Lille Rørbæk near Frederikssund – 3 October 1970)^[1] was a Danish politician from the Justice Party of Denmark (Danmarks Retsforbund). He was a member of the Folketing 1932-45 and 1950–60 and Minister of Fishery in the cabinet of H.C. Hansen II (1957–60) and the cabinet of Viggo Kampmann I (1960).

Privately he was a gardening consultant and fruit producer. After editing a single tax proposal with Jakob E. Lange, which the Radical Liberal Party rejected, he switched to the Justice Party in 1928.^[2]

During the German occupation of Denmark from 1940 to 45 he was secretary of the Parliamentary Cooperation Committee ('Nine Man Committee'), a cross-party body of the democratic parties which was a link between Parliament and the government in questions regarding the occupation.

Oluf Pedersen was a staunch opponent of the reinstitution of the death penalty in the . His energetic opposition caused indignation and got him enemies in the former resistance movement. He received a letter with death threats which caused much attention in the press.

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