Søren Brorsen

Søren Brorsen

Søren Brorsen (born July 1, 1875 in Nørre Farup , † February 17, 1961 in the Rigshospital in Copenhagen ) was a Danish politician of the Venstre . He served his country as Minister of Defense .

Family and origin

Brorsen's father was the landowner Anders Christian Brorsen (1833–1887), his mother was his wife Kirsten, nee. Hansen (1839-1909). On June 5, 1903, he married Karoline Schack (1881–1911), daughter of the landowner Niels Schack (1833–1921) and his wife Ellen Marie, born in Brøns Sogn . Mortensen (1846-1926). After divorcing his wife, Brorsen married on October 25, 1913 in Nørre Farup, Karen Laurine Søndergaard (1877–1941), daughter of the innkeeper Anders Søndergaard (1821–1912) and his wife Dorthea, née. Schultz.

Life

Brorsen passed the preliminary examination at Ribe Katedralskole in 1891 and went to Dalum Landbrugsskole from 1895 to 1896 and to Askov Højskole from 1901 to 1902 . He took over the Granvag estate near Ribe from his father in 1903. From 1905 to 1921 Brorsen was chairman of the rural residents' association for Ribe and the surrounding area, and in 1917 he co-founded the daily newspaper Vestkysten . In 1906 he was elected chairman of the community, in 1907 he gave up this post because he became a member of the Folketing for Venstre in the Ribe district, which he was until 1929 and between April and 1932 as a deputy for Marius Abel Nielsen Slebsager . From November 1932 to October 1945 he held the mandate for the Kellerup district - he regularly lost his mandate after he had stopped taking office.

As a young member of parliament in 1908, he proposed a law on dykes in the marshes near Ribe - the first Danish law on dykes of 1909 was largely based on Brorsen's initiative. He was the spokesman for his party in approving the land rights complex and from October 4, 1919 to 1940 he was a member of the state land rights committee, interrupted by his time as minister. With the formation of the Neergaard II government in 1920 he became chairman of the Venstre Folketing Group, and in the Neergaard III government he took over the Ministry of Defense . This department was again under his control from 1926 to 1929 in the Madsen-Mygdal government , during which time he conducted lengthy negotiations with the conservatives about the framework adjustments to the Defense Act of 1922, which were intended to ensure economic improvements to the armed forces. The failure of these negotiations and the associated failure of the Madsen-Mygdal government is largely due to Madsen- Mygdal 's harshness , not Brorsen's lack of negotiating skills. After the Folketing election Brorsen lost his ministry, but since he returned to the Folketing in 1932, he quickly regained influence in his party, he was vice-chairman of the Folketing group between 1933 and 1936 and chairman of the same from 1936 to 1940. Brorsen led Venstre through the New situation that arose after the radicals and social democrats had won a majority in the Landsting in 1936 and the conservatives entered negotiations on a constitutional reform that Venstre was opposed to. On April 10, 1940, despite resistance in his party, he joined the all-party government under Thorvald Stauning as a minister without portfolio . In the Stauning VI cabinet he served as defense minister and also held this post in the Buhl I and Scavenius governments - he was officially defense minister until the end of the German occupation in Denmark, but in fact the Scavenius government had been completely disempowered from August 29, 1943 .

Awards

• Commander of the Dannebrog Order, second class

literature

• Helge Larsen: Søren Brorsen . In: Svend Cedergreen Bech , Svend Dahl (eds.): Dansk biografisk leksikon . Founded by Carl Frederik Bricka , continued by Povl Engelstoft. 3. Edition. tape 2 : Bering – Bruel . Gyldendal, Copenhagen 1979, ISBN 87-01-77372-0 (Danish, biografiskleksikon.lex.dk ).