Mimi Jakobsen

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Mimi Vibeke Jakobsen (born November 19, 1948 in Copenhagen ) is a Danish politician . She held several ministerial posts and was chairman of the Centrum Democratern .

Origin and family

Jakobsen's father was Erhard Jakobsen (1917–2001), mayor of the Gladsaxe municipality ; her mother was Kate Tove Jakobsen, b. Larsson (1915-2003). Mimi Jakobsen married the city librarian Svend Horneman Stilling (* 1936) on June 6, 1981; the marriage, from which she has the son Christian (* 1982), was divorced. In 1988 she married the radio presenter Bengt Burg (* 1945), with whom she has the son Rasmus (* 1989) and from whom she divorced in 2000. In 2008 she married the life guard officer Mogens Lund Jensen.

Life

From 1954 to 1964 Jakobsen went to elementary school ; In 1967 she passed her Abitur at Gladsaxe Gymnasium. She studied language at the University of Copenhagen and worked as a university assistant at the Institute for Phonetics and Germanic Philology. Since her father was a co-founder of the Centrum-Demokraterne and at that time chairman of the party, she went into politics. From 1974 to 1982 she was a member of the Gladsaxer Municipal Council for the Centrum Democrats . In 1974 it was set up by the party for the Nykøbing-Falster district and elected to the Folketing; In 1979 she was elected to parliament for the Gladsaxe district. With the formation of the Schlüter I government under Poul Schlüter , Jakobsen took over the Ministry of Culture . On March 12, 1986 she gave the post to Hans Peter Clausen and took over the Ministry of Social Affairs from Elsebeth Kock-Petersen ; on September 1, 1987, she also took over the Greenland Ministry , which was abolished with the end of the government. In the following Schlueter II government she kept the Ministry of Social Affairs. From 1988 to 1991 she was the administrative director of the Scleroseforeningen . In 1989 she became the chairwoman of the Centrum-Demokraterne, taking over the office from her father. In the Poul Nyrup Rasmussen I government , she was Minister of Coordination and Deputy Prime Minister. On January 28, 1994 she was also given the Ministry of Industry , with both ministries merged on February 8 of that year. In the subsequent government of Poul Nyrup Rasmussen II , Jakobsen took over the Ministry of Trade and Industry. In 2000, she became General Secretary of Red Barnet .

With the 2001 Folketing election , the Centrum Democrats fell below the two percent threshold and Jakobsen lost their seat in the Folketing. At the 2005 party congress she made her post available and in 2006 joined the Social Democrats . In 2008 the Centrum Democrats dissolved.

Awards

Fonts

  • Politics i virkeligheden (1993)

Endnotes

  1. ↑ a b c d e f Helge Larsen : Mimi Jakobsen . In: Svend Cedergreen Bech , Svend Dahl (eds.): Dansk biografisk leksikon . Founded by Carl Frederik Bricka , continued by Povl Engelstoft. 3. Edition. tape 7 : Høeg – Kjoerholm . Gyldendal, Copenhagen 1981, ISBN 87-01-77422-0 (Danish, biografiskleksikon.lex.dk ).
  2. ↑ Dansk Kvindebiografisk Leksikon : Mimi Jakobsen (1948–) , accessed on March 19, 2019.
personal data
SURNAME Jakobsen, Mimi
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Jakobsen, Mimi Vibeke (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Danish politician, Member of the Folketing and Minister
DATE OF BIRTH November 19, 1948
PLACE OF BIRTH Copenhagen