Anchor Jørgensen

Anchor Jørgensen (1998)

Anker Henrik Jørgensen (born July 13, 1922 in Copenhagen ; † March 20, 2016 ) was a Danish social democratic politician and Prime Minister of his country.

Life

Jørgensen grew up as the son of a coach driver in poor circumstances. At the age of four he was orphaned and therefore adopted by his aunt, a tobacco worker, and his uncle, a chauffeur. Jørgensen went to school in the royal orphanage, where he also worked as a messenger, and finished this after the 7th grade. After graduating from secondary school in 1945, after attending evening school, he worked at shipyards as a warehouse and warehouse worker. Jørgensen was interned as a soldier in World War II and then joined the resistance . In 1949 he passed his preliminary exam after attending evening school.

1961 to 1964 Jørgensen was a member of the Copenhagen parliament and was elected to the Folketing in 1964 . In 1966 he co-founded the Socialdemokratisk samfund, a collection of the left wing of the Social Democrats. October 5, 1972 to December 19, 1973, Jørgensen Prime Minister with the purely Social Democratic Cabinet Jørgensen I . After an interruption by the liberal Hartling government , Jørgensen was again Prime Minister on February 13, 1975 with the Jørgensen II cabinet , but had to add the Venstre for his Jørgensen III cabinet. With the cabinets Jørgensen IV and Jørgensen V he ruled again with social democratic ministers until September 10, 1982. In 1978 he was also Danish Foreign Minister for a few months as the successor to Knud Børge Andersen . Jørgensen was the last non-academic to become Danish Prime Minister.

After resigning as Prime Minister and handing over the office to Poul Schlüter , Jørgensen remained party chairman of the Social Democrats until 1987 and a member of the Folketing until 1994.

Awards (selection)

• Dansk Forfatterforenings fredspris 1991
• LO’s Kulturpris 1994

Fonts

• Fra mine dagbøger . 3 Vol. Fremad, 1989–1990. ISBN 87-557-1543-5 and ISBN 87-557-1544-3
  1. 1972-1975: Bølgegang
  2. 1975-1977: I smult vande
  3. 1978-1982: Brændingen
• Fra Christianshavn til Christiansborg: erindringer 1922-1972 , Fremad, 1994. ISBN 87-557-1832-9

literature

• Merete Harding, Vagn Dybdahl : Anker Jørgensen , in: Dansk Biografisk Leksikon , 3rd edition, Gyldendal Copenhagen 1979–84.
• Anker Jørgensen , in: Internationales Biographisches Archiv 03/1988 of January 11, 1988, in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely accessible)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Anker Jørgensen död ( Memento of the original from March 25, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
2. ↑ See Dansk Biografisk Leksikon and Munzinger.
3. ↑ ^{a b} Dansk Biografisk Leksikon .