Poul Schlueter

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Poul Holmskov Schlueter (born April 3, 1929 in Tondern , † May 27, 2021 ) was a Danish politician of the Conservative People's Party . From 1982 to 1993 he was Prime Minister of his country.

Life

Schlüter's grandfather immigrated as a German from Holstein to what was then Danish North Schleswig and married a Danish woman. In 1948 Schlüter, who came from North Schleswig, graduated from Haderslev Katedralskole ; when he was in high school he was chairman of the Conservative Youth in Haderslev . He then studied law at the universities in Copenhagen and Århus and was chairman of the national organization of the Conservative People's Party from 1952 to 1955, and in 1951 and 1954 he took part in the world congresses of the World Association of Youth . 1958 Schlueter was in Koldingelected regional chairman of the youth association of the Conservative People's Party. In 1960 he opened his own law firm. In 1961 he became chairman of the Junior Chamber Denmark and in 1962 vice chairman of the Junior Chamber International.

From 1964 to 1994 he was a member of the Folketing . 1971–74 he was sent to the Council of Europe . From 1974 to 1977 he chaired the then opposition Conservative People's Party for the first time, which, "as it was mocked, 'a telephone booth as a parliamentary group' would have been sufficient in the Folketing". In 1978 he became head of the Danish delegation in the Nordic Council and in 1979 a member of the Presidium. In 1981 he took over the chairmanship of his party again.

"A zermürbter of coalition squabbles Anker Jørgensen left [...] [on September 10] 1982 [...] Schlüter without parliamentary elections, the Office of the State Minister." He had a head of up to 10 September 1987 Schlüter I government held. The cabinet-making coalition, consisting of the Venstre , the Conservative People's Party, the Christian People's Party and the Center Democrats, as well as the Progressive Party , was called the "five-leaf clover coalition". After that, Schlüter formed a second five-leaf clover coalition by June 3, 1988 . The subsequent cabinet, Schlueter III , was formed without the Christian People's Party and the Central Democrats, instead with Det Radikal Venstre . In a spontaneous statement on television, Schlueter said at the end of 1989 that a merger of the Federal Republic of Germany and the German Democratic Republic would not be in Denmark's interest. On a later occasion he said: “We also owe the anxious feelings respect.” On October 2, 1990, however, he welcomed German unity in a speech in the Folketing.

The Schlüter IV cabinet consisted only of the Conservative People's Party and the Venstre and lasted until Schlüter's resignation from the party chairmanship and the post of prime minister on January 25, 1993. The reason for Schlüter's resignation after a "surprisingly long term" was the Tamil affair : Schlüter's Minister of Justice from his second cabinet, Erik Ninn-Hansen , was guilty of perversion of the law in the case of family reunification of Tamil refugees .

From 1994 to 1999 Schlüter was a member of the European Parliament , from 1994 to 1997 its vice-president.

Private

On March 16, 1963, Schlueter married Majken Steen-Andersen. His second wife was the lawyer Lisbeth Povelsen, who died of cancer in 1988 at the age of only 44. On July 21, 1989, he married the ballet teacher Anne Marie Vessel.

Poul Schlüter's son Peter is also a member of the Conservative People's Party and represented it in the Copenhagen Citizenship from 2006 to 2009.

In 1999 Schlüter's memoirs Sikken et liv! (“What a life!”) In Aschehoug Dansk Forlag.

Schlueter died in May 2021 at the age of 92.

Political style

Schlüter followed two leitmotifs: "Ideology is nonsense", based on Henry Ford , and "I'm a conservative - but not so much that it bothers you."

Awards (selection)

literature

  • Merete Harding, Helge Larsen: Poul Schlüter , in: Dansk Biografisk Leksikon , 3rd edition, Gyldendal Copenhagen 1979–84.
  • Karl Christian Lammers : Hvad shall be more ved tyskerne bagefter? Det dansk-tyske forhold efter 1945 , Copenhagen 2005.
  • Nikolaj Petersen: Denmark and the New Germany. Coopertation or adaptation? , Aarhus 1994.

Web links

Commons : Poul Schlüter  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Endnotes

  1. ^ Former Minister of State Poul Schlueter has passed away. In: The North Schleswig . Bund Deutscher Nordschleswiger, May 28, 2021, accessed on May 28, 2021 .
  2. ↑ Schlüter and the minority. In: nordschleswiger.dk . May 28, 2021, accessed May 29, 2021 .
  3. ↑ a b c d e f g Cf. Dansk Biografisk Leksikon .
  4. ↑ a b c d e f Fredy Gsteiger : Lauter useful weaknesses , in: The time of September 25, 1992.
  5. ↑ Statsministeriet: Regeringen Poul Schlüter I .
  6. ↑ Denmark: Falling Leaves. In: Der Spiegel 38/1982. September 19, 1982, accessed on May 29, 2021 : “And the civil parties (Conservatives, Old Liberals, Central Democrats and Christian People's Party) are dependent on the support, or at least tolerance, from the seedy Glistrup. The "four-leaf clover" has only 66 out of 179 seats in the Folketing, with Glistrup's Progress Party (and the social liberals) a narrow majority of 91 votes against the 88 on the left. "
  7. ^ Statsministeriet: Regeringen Poul Schlueter II .
  8. ^ Karl Christian Lammers: Hvad shall be more ved tyskerne bagefter? Det dansk-tyske forhold efter 1945 , Copenhagen 2005, p. 258.
  9. ^ Nikolaj Petersen: Denmark and the New Germany. Coopertation or adaptation? , Aarhus 1994, p. 5.
  10. ↑ Karl Christian Lammers: Appreciated, but not loved. The perception of German unity in Denmark , in: Federal Agency for Civic Education , March 21, 2014, accessed on March 23, 2020.
personal data
SURNAME Schlueter, Poul
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schlueter, Poul Holmskov (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Danish politician, member of the Folketing, MEP
DATE OF BIRTH April 3, 1929
PLACE OF BIRTH Tondern
DATE OF DEATH May 27, 2021