Orla Møller

Orla Møller (1916–1979) was a Danish priest and politician who served in different cabinet posts in the 1960s and 1970s. He was a member of the Social Democrats and of the Parliament between 1964 and 1977.

Biography

Møller was born in Mols in 1916.^[1]^[2] He was educated as a priest.^[1] In 1951 he became general secretary of the Christian Association for Young Men and Women.^[1] From 1956 and 1965 he worked as a parish priest in Hasseris, North Jutland.^[1] In 1964 he was elected to the Parliament for the Social Democrats the and served there until 1977.^[1]^[2] He was the minister of ecclesiastes affairs in Prime Minister Jens Otto Krag's second cabinet in the period between 1966 and 1968.^[1] From 1971 he was the political spokesman and chairman of the Social Democrats' parliamentary group.^[1]

In 1973 he was named as the minister of justice to the first cabinet of Anker Jørgensen.^[1] In 1975 Møller was appointed the minister of defense and justice in the second cabinet of Anker Jørgensen.^[3] In 1977 Møller resigned from the office, and in January 1978 he began to work as the director of NATO's Information Office in Brussels.^[1] He died in 1979.^[2]

References

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ "Orla Møller, 1916-1979" (in Danish). Danmarks Historien. Retrieved 19 July 2022.
^ ^a ^b ^c Niels Kærgård (2015). "The Entanglement between Religion and Politics in Denmark". In Michael Böss (ed.). Bringing Culture Back In: Cultural Diversity, Religion, and the State. Aarhus: Aarhus University Press. p. 268. ISBN 978-87-7184-120-6.
^ "Danish Prime Minister Shuffles 3‐Month‐Old Minority Government". The New York Times. Copenhagen. Reuters. 2 October 1977. Retrieved 19 July 2022.

External links

Media related to Orla Møller at Wikimedia Commons

[danhis-1] ^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ "Orla Møller, 1916-1979" (in Danish). Danmarks Historien. Retrieved 19 July 2022.

[nils-2] Niels Kærgård (2015). "The Entanglement between Religion and Politics in Denmark". In Michael Böss (ed.). Bringing Culture Back In: Cultural Diversity, Religion, and the State. Aarhus: Aarhus University Press. p. 268. ISBN 978-87-7184-120-6.

[nyt77-3] "Danish Prime Minister Shuffles 3‐Month‐Old Minority Government". The New York Times. Copenhagen. Reuters. 2 October 1977. Retrieved 19 July 2022.

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