Lone Dybkjær

Lone Dybkjær (2011)

Lone Dybkjær (born May 23, 1940 in Frederiksberg near Copenhagen , † July 20, 2020 in Copenhagen) was a Danish politician ( Det Radikalische Venstre , RV), who was at times Environment Minister and a member of the European Parliament for ten years .

Life

Lone Dybkjær completed a degree in civil engineering after attending school and has worked as a civil engineer since 1964. Her political career began when she was elected for the first time as a member of the Folketing in the election of December 4, 1973 as a candidate for Det Radikalische Venstre and was a member of this until the February 15, 1977 elections . In the subsequent Folketing election on October 23, 1979 , she was re-elected as a member of parliament and was a member of the Folketing until the elections on September 21, 1994 . During this time she was initially the spokesperson for the RV parliamentary group for energy, labor market and environmental policy, and most recently between 1987 and 1988 she was the parliamentary group speaker for foreign policy.

On June 3, 1988, Lone Dybkjær was appointed by Prime Minister Poul Schlueter as Environment Minister ( Miljøminister ) in his third government and held the ministerial office until December 18, 1990. So far she was the only politician of her party in this ministerial department.

In the European elections in 1994 Lone Dybkjær, who had been married to the then Social Democratic Prime Minister and later a member of the European Parliament Poul Nyrup Rasmussen since 1994 , was elected as a member of the 4th European Parliament and belonged to the European Parliament after her re-election in the European elections in 1999 until End of the fifth legislative period in 2004. Most recently she was 1st Deputy Chairwoman of the Environment Committee between 1999 and 2004.

After leaving the European Parliament, she was re-elected as a member of the Folketing in the election on February 8, 2005 for the RV, to which she belonged until the Folketing election on September 15, 2011 . Lone Dybkjær also worked as co-chair of the gender equality organization Gender Task Force , which, with the support of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), works to improve the working and living conditions of women in Southeastern Europe . In 2009 she also took on an adjunct professorship for humanistic computer science at Ålborg Universitetscenter . After 2011 when her cancer was diagnosed, she succumbed to the disease in 2020 after nearly ten years of suffering at the age of 80 years.

Publications

• Det forunderlige parlament , 1999 (new edition 2002)

Web links

• Entry in Den Store Danske Encyklopædi (online version)
• Entry on Lone Dybkjær in the Members' database of the European Parliament

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Lone Dybkjær professor i Aalborg at vbn.aau.dk
2. ↑ Lone Dybkjær er død - 80 år gammel in the Berlingske