Henrik Sass Larsen

Henrik Sass Larsen, 2011.

Henrik Sass Larsen (born May 29, 1966 in Virum , Denmark ) is a Danish social democratic politician and was Minister for Industry and Growth in the government of Helle Thorning-Schmidt II . He is currently chairman of the Socialist Group in the Folketing .

Life

Sass Larsen comes from a humble background and grew up with his mother, a department store cashier, in Høje Taastrup . He was sent to a children's home when he was twelve years old because his stepfather allegedly mistreated him. After three years, the parents of a classmate took him in to care for him. At the age of 16 he joined the Danish social democratic youth organization DSU in protest against conservative classmates . In 1992 Sass Larsen became chairman of the DSU, and in 1996 he was replaced by Morten Bødskov .

In the late 1990s Sass Larsen was employed by the Rostra A / S communications office, which advised the parties in the civil camp. Among other things, campaigns for the later Conservative Foreign Minister Lene Espersen were developed. In 2001 he left the company, which filed for bankruptcy a year later. Investigations showed that Sass Larsen had made serious mistakes in the bookkeeping.

On November 20, 2001, Sass Larsen was elected to the Folketing for the Social Democrats. The party had to surrender to the bourgeois camp. Sass Larsen belonged to a group of young party members who supported Helle Thorning-Schmidt . After she became party leader in 2005, Sass-Larsen was appointed vice leader of his party. He also took over the office of financial policy spokesman. In 2006, after the resignation of Lotte Bundsgaard, he became a parliamentary group speaker. During the 2007 election campaign, Sass Larsen was accused by the right-wing liberal MP Jens Rohde of having passed on internal information from the leadership of the Social Democrats to his, Rohdes, Venstre party .

After the Social Democrats were again defeated in 2007, Sass Larsen was considered to be the co-architect of his party's new alliance with the People's Socialists . After the election victory of the alliance of social democrats, people's socialists and social liberals in 2011, Sass Larsen was designated as finance minister. But the politician failed because of a security check by the Danish police secret service, PET . The reason was his contact with one of the leading members of the rocker band Bandidos . Under pressure from Sass Larsen, the Danish Ministry of Justice published the PET documents that led to the rejection. Leading politicians from both camps then criticized the secret service's decision as only vaguely justified.

So rehabilitated, Sass Larsen was elected leader of the Social Democrats on May 9, 2012. On August 9, 2013, he took over the post of Minister of Industry and Growth from Annette Vilhelmsen as part of a ministerial rogue . He is a member of the Helle Thorning-Schmidt II government .

After the election in June 2019 , he was a member of those Social Democrats who were negotiating a government agreement with other parties. He was seen by the media as a potential new finance minister and he, too, expressed his desire to become finance minister. On June 10, 2019, however, he announced that he had reported sick indefinitely due to depression , which is why he would not take up a ministerial post and withdrew from the negotiations. As early as February of that year he announced that he was suffering from depression.

Henrik Sass Larsen lives in divorce. He is the father of a daughter born in 1999.

Awards

• 2013: "Ting-Prisen" for the special ability to convey one's own politics

bibliography

• En europæisk utopi (co-author, 1994)
• Tilbage til Friheden (co-author, 1996)

Web links

• Henrik Sass Larsen's personal website
• Henrik Sass Larsen on the pages of the Danish Parliament

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Christina Pedersen, Lisbeth Kjær Larsen: Portræt: Fra børnehjem til toppolitiker (Danish) , BT . September 30, 2011. Accessed March 23, 2014. 
2. ↑ ANDREAS KARKER: Fra børnehjem til top-post (Danish) , BT . October 29, 2005. Retrieved March 23, 2014. 
3. ↑ Malin Schmid: Portræt: Mønsterbryder blev fældet af sin fortid (Danish) , Dagbladet Information . September 30, 2011. Accessed March 23, 2014. 
4. ↑ ANDREAS KARKER: Fra børnehjem til top-post - BT - October 29, 2005 (Danish)
5. ↑ Jonas Schrøder: Sass Larsens gæld basics under sagnomspunden spindoktor (Danish) , Berlingske . November 24, 2006. Retrieved March 23, 2014. 
6. ↑ Sass kunne ikke styre virksomhed ( Danish ) BT . September 15, 2011. Retrieved March 23, 2014.
7. ↑ Lotte Bundsgaard: Jeg er uenig i Helles ledelsesstil ( Danish ) Dagbladet information . April 26, 2006. Retrieved March 23, 2014.
8. ↑ Kalika Bro-Jørgensen: Op til folketingsvalget 2005 var Socialdemokraternes politiske ordfører angiveligt spion for Venstre. (Danish) , Avisen.dk. November 10, 2007. Retrieved March 23, 2014. 
9. ↑ KASPER IVERSEN: Portræt af Henrik Sass: En socialdemokratisk deroute (Danish) , Politiken . September 29, 2011. Archived from the original on January 1, 2012 Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Retrieved March 23, 2014.  
10. ↑ Silla Bakalus: Sass Larsen fældet af rocker-forbindelse (Danish) , BT . September 29, 2011. Retrieved March 23, 2014. 
11. ↑ Thomas Nørmark Krog: Topadvokat anlægger sag: PET gav Sass særbehandling (Danish) , BT . August 18, 2013. Retrieved March 23, 2014. 
12. ↑ Steffen Koldborg: Henrik Sass er nu ny gruppeformand (Danish) , DR . May 9, 2012. Retrieved March 23, 2014. 
13. ↑ Jens Ringberg, Rikke Gjøl Mansø: Henrik Sass Larsen bliver ikke minister i ny regering - detector sig syg. Retrieved June 10, 2019 (Danish). 
14. ↑ Kristian Corfixen, Olav Hergel: Henrik Sass Larsen: Jeg blev ramt af en depression. February 23, 2019, accessed June 10, 2019 (Danish).