Høgni Hoydal

Høgni Hoydal at a 2010 Nordic Council meeting in Reykjavík

Høgni Karsten Hoydal (born March 28, 1966 in Copenhagen , lives in Hoyvík , Faroe Islands ) is chairman of the left-wing Republican party Tjóðveldi and was the first foreign minister in the history of the Faroe Islands from March to September 2008 . Since mid-September 2015 he has been Minister of Fisheries and Deputy Prime Minister of the Faroe Islands.

Family and education

Høgni Hoydal was born in Copenhagen to the Faroese couple Gunvør and Kjartan Hoydal . He is married to Hildur Hermansen and has two sons and a daughter: Sjúrður (* 1988), Brim (* 1990) and Helgi (* 1996). The singer and actress Annika Hoydal is Høgni Hoydal's aunt, the writer Gunnar Hoydal his uncle. His grandfather Karsten Hoydal was a writer and co-founder of the Republicans.

After graduating from high school, he studied history and communication sciences in Roskilde and worked, among other things, as a television journalist at Sjónvarp Føroya .

Political career

Høgni Hoydal is generally considered to be one of the most colorful figures in Faroese politics. He is perhaps the most famous Faroese politician abroad. His political commitment tirelessly aims at the separation of the Faroe Islands from Denmark and the establishment of a sovereign Republic of the Faroe Islands .

Høgni Hoydal has been a member of the Faroese Parliament Løgting since 1998 (re-elected in 2002, 2004 and 2008). Until December 15, 2003 he was also a member of the state government of the Faroe Islands from Anfinn Kallsberg as Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Justice, Minister for Nordic Cooperation and Minister for State Independence. From the 2001 Folketing election he was also a member of the Danish Folketing in the North Atlantic Group in the Folketing . In 2005 and 2007 he was re-elected, in the 2011 Folketing election his party lost its mandate in the Folketing. As a result, Høgni Hoydal left Parliament, despite the fact that he had the best personal vote of any candidate.

In the Løgtings election on January 19, 2008, the Republicans were the strongest party and was able to form a left-wing government under the Social Democrat Jóannes Eidesgaard . Høgni Hoydal became Foreign Minister of the Faroe Islands - an office that previously only existed in personal union with the Prime Minister.

In mid-September 2008 there was an uproar between Hoydal and his social democratic head of government Jóannes Eidesgaard when Hoydal was accused of having changed the locks on an office on the government peninsula of Tinganes and thus barring access to the landlord. Observers assumed that this affair was only taken as an external cause for deeper national political differences. Hoydal was dismissed from the government, and on September 24, Eidesgaard announced his resignation and the formation of a new coalition.

In the 2015 Folketing election he won one of the two Faroese mandates due to the preferential votes , but immediately left the seat to Magni Arge , who had achieved the second-best result in personal votes on the Tjóðveldi list.

On September 15, 2015 he became Minister of Fisheries and Deputy Prime Minister in the newly formed Faroese state government under Prime Minister Aksel V. Johannesen .

various

In June 2004, Høgni Hoydal and the Greenlandic politician Jonathan Motzfeldt were guests in Flensburg at the annual meeting ( Årsmøde ) of the Danish minority in southern Schleswig .

Publications

• Håb i Kris (Hope in a Crisis) with Michael Haldrup, 1995
• Myten om Rigsfællesskabet (The Myth of the Imperial Community with Denmark), 2000
• Frælsi er ábyrgd (Freedom is Responsibility), 2000

See also

• Provincial Government of the Faroe Islands

Web links

• Short biography Høgni Hoydal Logting.fo (in Faroese)
• CV at Folketinget.dk
• new-deutschland.de, October 31, 2001 (interview in Neues Deutschland )

Commons : Høgni Hoydal  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Færøerne udnævner en udenrigsminister. In: Politiken . February 5, 2008, accessed July 19, 2014 (Danish). 
2. ↑ Færøsk regering opløst efter strid om local. In: Politiken . September 15, 2008, accessed July 19, 2014 (Danish). 
3. ↑ Hetta er nýggja landsstýrið , in.fo, September 15, 2015
4. ↑ Sydslesvig møder north. (No longer available online.) In: Jyllands-Posten . June 13, 2004, archived from the original on July 26, 2014 ; Retrieved July 19, 2014 (Danish).