Jóngerð Purkhús

Jóngerð Jensina Purkhús (born January 22, 1937 in Klaksvík ) is a Faroese political scientist and former politician of the left-wing Republican party Tjóðveldi . From 1985 to 1989 she was Minister of Finance, Economy and Environment, and from 1989 to 1991 Minister of Economy, Transport and Nordic Affairs of her country. She was also the first woman to hold a ministerial post in a Faroese state government.

Origin, education and profession

Jóngerð Purkhús comes from Klaksvík and grew up in an environment made up of fishermen and workers. Her parents were Elsa Johanna (née Hansen) and Jákup Pauli Purkhús. Her father, who was a fisherman by trade, was politically active in the socialist republican party Tjóðveldisflokkurin .

After finishing school in 1953, Jóngerð Purkhús initially worked for seven years as an unskilled worker in Klaksvík. At the age of 23, she went to Copenhagen in 1960 , where she attended an evening grammar school and made a living doing various activities during the day. In 1963 she successfully completed the evening high school and then studied political science at the University of Copenhagen . Nine years later she graduated as cand. Polit. And was the first Faroese woman to hold this academic title. After working in Copenhagen for three years, she returned to the Faroe Islands with her husband Niels á Velbastað, whom she married in 1970, after living in Denmark for 15 years. There she worked for the state government and organized the takeover of the postal system, which until then was still administered by Denmark. Then she was director of the newly founded Postverk Føroya until 1978 . She then worked for the state government until 1985, where she dealt with financial issues.

politics

The political commitment of Jóngerð Purkhús in the left-wing Republican Tjóðveldisflokkurin with his pronounced striving for independence and the desire to break away from Denmark came from her parents' home on the one hand, and on the other hand she witnessed the so-called Klaksvík uprising in the first half of the 1950s in her youth , who had a lasting political influence on them. In 1978 she ran for the first time for the Løgting , but without success. She was then appointed to the Atli Dam IV state government at the beginning of 1985 and was Minister for Finance, Economy and Environment from January 1985 to April 1988. They took the same ministerial posts from April 1988 to January 1989 in the following state government Atli Dam V . In November 1988 she also succeeded in entering Løgting as an elected member of parliament in the parliamentary elections. After the end of the Atli Dam V government in January 1989, she was a member of parliament until mid-1989. In June 1989 she received another ministerial post in the newly formed state government Jógvan Sundstein II , this time for economy, transport and Nordic affairs. The governing coalition lasted until January 1991. After her resignation as minister, she remained on the executive committee of her party for some time and then finally withdrew from active politics in 1993.

Jóngerð Purkhús lives with her husband in Velbastaður , where the couple settled in 1976.

Web links

• Kvinnuligir løgtingslimir, landsstýrisfólk og fólkatingslimir 1964-Løgtingslimir , Demokratie.fo (in Faroese)
• Jóngerð Purkhús , kvinfo.dk (in Danish)
• 100 years of women's suffrage ( memento from November 8, 2015 in the web archive archive.today ), stamps.fo (in German)
• Føroya løgmenn og landsstýri síðan 1948 . tinganes.fo (members of the government since 1948). Archived from the original on August 13, 2011. Retrieved August 18, 2016. (in Faroese)
• Løgtingssøgan 2 - PDF, pages 177, 178, 222 and 342 (with photo) . logting.elektron.fo. Archived from the original on January 4, 2014. Retrieved August 18, 2016. (in Faroese)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Kvinnur í politikki , Demokratie.fo