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Per Federspiel (left) and Jan de Quay (1961)

Torben Per Federspiel (born April 9, 1905 , † November 27, 1994 ) was a Danish politician in the liberal party Venstre . From 1960 to 1963 he was President of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe .

Life

Per Federspiel was the son of lawyer Holger Federspiel (1868–1934) and Asta Nutzhorn (1880–1951). In 1931 he graduated from the University of Copenhagen with a law degree . In 1937 he became a lawyer for Østre Landsret (Eastern District Court). Working for Max Rothenborg's law firm brought him into contact with Jewish customers and gave him an insight into the situation of Jews in Hitler's Germany.

During the German occupation he was responsible for organizing the financing of a large part of the Danish resistance movement . He was arrested by the Gestapo in October 1943 and arrested again in April 1944 after successfully escaping. The following year he was in Vestre Prison, Horserød Camp and Frøslev Camp . After the war he became the first president of a charity for the families of members of the resistance.

He was Minister for Special Tasks in Knud Kristensen's cabinet from 1945 to 1947, then a member of the Folketing (first chamber of parliament) from 1947 to 1950 and again from 1957 to 1973. From 1951 to 1953 he was a member of the Landsting ( Second Chamber). From 1960 to 1963 he was the only Danish chairman of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe .

Awards

literature

  • Ditlev Tamm : Federspiel: en dansk europæer , Gyldendal, 2005, ISBN 87-00-47968-3 .
  • Europe and the developing countries. Lectures and discussions at an international working conference organized by the Friedrich Naumann Foundation together with the German Group of the Liberal World Union from March 10 to 12, 1960 , Friedrich Naumann Foundation, Liberal International, Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, Stuttgart 1961.

Individual evidence

  1. List of all decorations awarded by the Federal President for services to the Republic of Austria from 1952 (PDF; 6.9 MB).
  2. Europe and the developing countries , Stuttgart 1961, p. 159 ff.