Ole son

Ole Son (2006)

Ole Christian Liep son (born September 12, 1954 in Torsted , Horsens ) is a Danish author and politician . From 1987 to 1991 he was chairman of Danmarks Kommunistiske Parti (DKP), then he moved to Socialistisk Folkeparti (SF). From October 3, 2011 to October 16, 2012 he was Minister for Industry and Growth in the Helle Thorning-Schmidt I government . On February 4, 2014, he became a member of the Social Democrats .

Life

The son of a representative and a teacher attended the Gedved seminar after completing the Egebjerg Skole and, after working as a worker and ship's cook, passed a higher preparatory examination from 1972 to 1973. He then worked as a construction worker and concrete worker before taking up activities as a writer , speaker and consultant in 1976 . During his work as a construction worker, he was already involved in trade unions and in 1974 became a member of the board of the skilled workers' union SiD (Specialarbejderforbundet i Danmark) in Horsens, of which he was chairman between 1977 and 1987. He was also a member of the main board of the SiD between 1981 and 1987 and a member of the city ​​council of Horsens from 1982 to 1984 .

In addition to his trade union involvement, he began working for the DKP and was a member of the DKP's central committee between 1981 and 1991 and finally chairman of the DKP from 1987 to 1991 as the successor to the late Jørgen Jensen . During this time, the DKP was supported by the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU) with a total of 5.2 million Danish kroner . In 1987 and 1989 he ran unsuccessfully for the first time for the Folketing for the DKP in the constituency of Århus Øst- og Nordkreds and then until 1991 for the Enhedslisten - de rød-grønne (EL) in the constituency of Glostrup- og Rødovrekreds . On October 7, 1989, he represented the DKP at the official celebrations for the 40th anniversary of the GDR and was criticized for this in Denmark.

As a Eurosceptic he was involved in the bipartisan electoral alternative Folkebevægelsen mod EU (popular movement against the EU ). From 1989 to 1992 he was a member of its Executive Board.

After the collapse of the Soviet Union and the Eastern Bloc , he left the DKP and became a member of the Socialistisk Folkeparti. After he ran unsuccessfully for the SF in the constituency of Slagelse and Korsør in 1992 , he was a member of the Folketing for a short time in October 1994 and between November and December 1997 as a successor . Son has been a regular MP since the election of March 11, 1998.

In the 2007 Folketing election he was one of the top candidates in the SF and then became chairman of his parliamentary group in the Folketing. On October 3, 2011, Prime Minister Thorning-Schmidt appointed him Minister for Industry and Growth. On October 12, 2012, Sohn signaled his willingness to give up his ministerial office as part of a personnel reorganization of the party. Just four days later, he was replaced by the new SF chairwoman, Annette Vilhelmsen . After the chaotic upheavals within the SF in early 2014, he joined the Social Democrats. Most recently, he advocated wage restraint on the part of workers for ten years and a waiver of tax increases for Danish companies in order to strengthen their international competitiveness and secure jobs.

Publications

Ole Sohn at the presentation of his book Gustaf Munch-Petersen - og den spanske borgerkrig (2008)

In addition to his trade union and political commitment, Sohn has written numerous books on social and historical-political topics, including a biography of the Danish communist politician Arne Munch-Petersen , who died in the Butyrka prison in Moscow during the Stalinist purges in 1940 , as well as the Writer and painter Gustaf Munch-Petersen who died in the Spanish Civil War . In 1991 Ole Sohn received the Lyngsie Prize from the Workers' Culture Fund in Horsens .

In 2004, Sohn founded the small publishing house Forlaget Sohn . At the end of 2013 it was sold to Lindhardt og Ringhof , Denmark's second largest publisher.

His most famous publications include:

• Et land af iskagesælgere? Noget om virksomhedslukninger og kapitalflugt , 1988
• Fra Folketinget til celle 290. Arne Munch-Petersens skæbne , 1992
• Et liv i kamp og kærlighed , 1993
• The var bud efter dem. Fire skæbneberetninger fra 30'ernes revolutionære miljø , 1994
• Gartner i 100 år , 1994
• Her kommer fra dybet den mørke armé. Fra tyende til specialarbejder , 1995
• Den højeste punished. En B & W-arbejders liv og skæbne - fra Amager til Stalingrad , 1996
• Frihedens port , Roman, 1999
• Vanviddet's logic. The Rachlin and other skæbner families under Stalin's regime , 2001
• De drog mod øst. Danskeres udvandring to Russia and Siberia 1864 to 1919 , 2002
• Jeg kommer snart hjem. En beretning om en dansk udvandrerfamilies dramatiske tilværelse , 2005
• Gustaf Munch-Petersen og den spanske borgerkrig , 2007, ISBN 9788791959080

Web links

• Curriculum vitae at Folketinget.dk, accessed on 6 February 2014

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Cecilie Gormsen: Lindhardt og Ringhof køber Ole Sohns forlag Berlingske online, December 18, 2013