Tom Høyem

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Tom Høyem at the state party conference of the FDP Baden-Württemberg 2015

Tom Høyem (born October 10, 1941 in Nykøbing Falster , Denmark ) is a Danish-German politician . He was Danish Minister for Greenland and director of several European schools .

In 1973 he participated in the founding of the Danish party Centrum-Demokraterne . From 1975 to 1979 he worked as a lecturer for Danish language and literature at Stockholm University and was also a foreign correspondent for the Danish daily Berlingske Tidende . He participated in the founding of the Swedish Center Democrats and became its vice-chairman. In 1975 he founded a Danish adult education center and, as its chairman, ensured that departments were set up in many European countries. In 1979 he became the director of a Danish boarding high school.

In September 1982 he joined the Danish government under Poul Schlueter as Greenland Minister and held this office until 1987. He then took over the management of the European School in Culham , was appointed director of the European School in Munich in 1994 and moved to the European School in Karlsruhe as its director in 2000. In August 2015 he retired from the post of school director at the ESK.

In 1994 he joined the FDP and was elected to the Karlsruhe municipal council in 2004 . In 2005 he became a member of Venstre , the liberal party of Denmark. He has been used repeatedly as an election observer by the OECD and the Danish government, namely in Albania, Bosnia, Macedonia, Montenegro, Ukraine, Palestine and the Democratic Republic of the Congo .

Tom Høyem has been married for a second time since 2002 and has four children. On September 1, 2015, he received German citizenship.

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  1. ↑ Change of leadership at ESK: The French Daniel Gassner will succeed Tom Høyem on September 1st. (No longer available online.) August 31, 2015, archived from the original on August 16, 2016 ; accessed on August 16, 2016 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / eskar.org
  2. ↑ OSCE Observer in Ukraine "My wife is worried about me". N24, May 17, 2014, accessed August 16, 2016 .
  3. ↑ Bernd Schiel: German Citizen! September 4, 2015, accessed August 16, 2016 .
  4. ↑ ka-news.de , February 7, 2014, accessed April 24, 2014.

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SURNAME Høyem, Tom
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Danish Minister of Greenland and director of several European schools
DATE OF BIRTH October 10, 1941
PLACE OF BIRTH Nykøbing Falster , Denmark