Ove Guldberg

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Ove Guldberg (born December 2, 1918 in Nysted , Sjælland region , † February 28, 2008 ) was a Danish engineer and politician of the liberal Venstre and at times Minister for Public Works and Foreign Minister.

Life

Engineer and association official

After visiting the Katedralskole in Roskilde , he began studying engineering in 1937 , which he completed in 1942. He then worked as an engineer at Vejle Kommune , before joining the K. Hindhede company in 1943. He then became an employee in the office of the city engineer of Copenhagen in 1944 and worked from 1946 to 1947 in the research laboratory of the Ministry of Fisheries. Already during this time his commitment to Det Conservative Folkeparti began , for which he ran unsuccessfully for a member of the Folketing in the elections of October 28, 1947 in the constituency of Ribe .

As a member of the main board of the Danish Engineers' Association ( Dansk Ingeniørforening ) between 1946 and 1948 and as its secretary from 1948 to 1952 and director from 1952 to 1965, he also advocates the promotion of engineering training and the acceptance of engineers into the civil service. He also studied law at the University of Copenhagen , which he finished in 1949. He also became secretary of the Association of Consulting Engineers ( Foreningen af ​​rådgivende Ingeniører ) in 1956 and was its director from 1965 to 1968. In addition, between 1957 and 1968, as director, he played a key role in the planning and implementation of the construction of the house of the engineering association ( A / S Dansk Ingeniørforenings Hus ). At the same time he was involved in the international cooperation of engineers and was temporarily secretary of the conference of representatives of the engineering associations of Western Europe and the USA.

Guldberg was also President of the Association for Civil Defense from 1962 to 1965 and a member of the Council for Civil Defense and between 1962 and 1968 was also a member of the board of the mining and trading company Kryolith Mine og Handels Selskabet A / S , which mainly mined cryolite in Greenland .

MP and Minister

In the elections of September 22, 1964 , Guldberg, now as a candidate for the liberal Venstre, was elected for the first time as a member of the Folketing and represented the constituency of Odsherred until the elections of February 15, 1977 .

On February 2, 1968, he was appointed Minister for Public Works ( Minister for offentlige Arbejder ) by Prime Minister Hilmar Baunsgaard in his cabinet and held this position until the end of Baunsgaard's tenure on October 11, 1971. In this position he was also responsible for transport responsible and worked out by the road authority ( Vejstyrelsne ) within the framework of the municipal reorganization a system of state, official and municipal roads as well as a reduction of state investments in municipal infrastructure costs through municipal loans and subsidies. During his tenure, the plans to build Farøbroerne , a bridge for the motorway between Denmark and Falster to relieve the Storstrømmen, also fell . At the same time there were expansion measures at Copenhagen-Kastrup Airport and new building plans for Copenhagen-Roskilde Airport .

Guldberg was appointed Foreign Minister ( Udenrigsminister ) in his cabinet by Prime Minister Poul Hartling on December 19, 1973 , to which he was a member until February 13, 1975. In this role he campaigned for cooperation in the European Communities , which Denmark joined on January 1, 1973, and was also a member of the European Parliament between 1973 and 1977 .

After leaving the government, Guldberg became a member of the board of the Scandinavian airline SAS Scandinavian Airlines in 1975 . In 1977 he had to resign from the Folketing and European Parliament after the so-called Frikortage announced that he was using free flights as a board member of the SAS for his political activities.

In 1987 he settled in Ireland and Spain and brought several lawsuits against Denmark in which, among other things, he demanded the right to vote for Danes living abroad. In 2003 he returned to Denmark and was buried in the Østre cemetery in Roskilde after his death .

Publications

  • Det uregerlige Danmark , Memoirs, 1979

Web links

Individual evidence

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  3. ↑ Frikortsagen (forbryderalbum.dk)
personal data
SURNAME Guldberg, Ove
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Danish engineer and politician (Venstre), member of the Folketing, Minister for Public Works and Foreign Minister
DATE OF BIRTH December 2, 1918
PLACE OF BIRTH Nysted , Sjælland region
DATE OF DEATH February 28, 2008