Jens Rohde

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Jens Rohde (2014)

Jens Rohde (born April 18, 1970 in Holstebro ) is a Danish politician ( Radliche Venstre ) and has been a member of the Danish Parliament since 2019 .

job

From 1984 to 1997 Rohde worked as a journalist at Radio Viborg , a. a. as a sports commentator and EU reporter. At the same time he worked for the advertising agencies CC Marketing Silkeborg and Byro in Viborg from 1991-1994 . In 1998 he taught media at Viborg Ungdomsskole . He ran his own consulting company, JR media, and from 1994 headed the trade association in Viborg. After all, he wrote regularly in the Berlingske- Verlag newspapers .

politics

Rohde had been a member of the right-wing liberal Venstre party since 1993 . In 1998 he moved into the Folketing . From 2001 to 2006 he was political spokesman for his group. Against the majority of the parliamentary group, he voted for a law that gave lesbian or single women the right to artificial insemination. In 2005 he resigned from the Danish national church after hundreds of pastors criticized the asylum policy of the liberal-conservative government in the Christmas service. As Venstres' media policy spokesman, he vigorously advocated the privatization of TV 2 .

On January 9, 2007, he left parliament to become director of TV 2 Radio . However, he lost this post on November 13, 2007, the day of the Folketing election . His employer said events during the election campaign cast doubt on Rohde's political neutrality. Rohde had already clashed with top representatives of the Social Democrats.

Rohde has been a member of the European Parliament since 2009 . For the 2014 European elections , he was not nominated as a top candidate by the party leadership after he had called for far-reaching EU reforms. Rohde returned the favor at the end of May 2014 by being the first top politician to demand the resignation of his ailing party leader Lars Løkke Rasmussen .

On December 19, 2015, Rohde left his party to protest against its restrictive asylum and immigration policy and joined the opposition social liberals. In this context, he said that Venstre had in recent years increasingly distanced itself from its liberal values ​​and drawn too close to the Danish People's Party .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ CV at Folketinget.dk. Accessed October 3, 2019.
  2. ↑ Jens Rohde fyret Information.dk, November 14, 2007, accessed on July 12, 2012.
  3. ↑ Boris Gullev, Jens Nymark: Jens Rohde fyret fra TV2 Radio Børsen.dk, November 14, 2007, accessed on July 12, 2012.
  4. ↑ Jens Rohde kræver Lars Løkkes afgang som formand Information.dk, May 30, 2014.
  5. ↑ Rohde forlader Venstre i protest policies, accessed December 20, 2015.
personal data
SURNAME Rohde, Jens
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Danish politician (Venstre), member of the Folketing, MEP
DATE OF BIRTH April 18, 1970
PLACE OF BIRTH Holstebro