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DANISH FEMALE PARTY
LEADERS
- and holders of other
high party offices
Also see List of Danish Female Ministers
and Danish Party Leaders
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1968-69 Group-Chairperson of
Venstresocialisterne Hanne Reintoft |
| Parliamentary leader of the Left Socialists. (b.
1934-). |
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1974-75 Group-Chairperson of De
Uafhængige Birgit Busk
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The "Independent's" broke away from Fremskridtspartiet
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1977-91 Group-Chairperson of
Socialistisk Folkeparti Ebba Strange
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In 1979 the Social People's Party, which is moderate socialist, had a
majority of female MPs. (b. 1929-). |
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1978-79 Group-Chairperson
of Retsforbundet Lis Starcke
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| 1977-78 and
1979-82 Deputy Group-Chairperson of
Retsforbundet, which is translated into the Justice Party |
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1981-84 Group-Chairperson of
Venstresocialisterne
1982-86 Political Spokesperson Anne-Grete Holmsgård
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| MF for
the Left Wing Socialist Party 1979-86, she left the party
and later represented the Socialist People's Party until 1987 and
again from 2001. A number of administrative management posts and director
of the Technical University of Denmark 1995-2002. (b. 1948-). |
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1982-84
Group Chairperson Centrum-Demokraterne Yvonne Herløv Andersen
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| 1979-89
General Secretary of the Centre Democrats,
1994 Minister of Social Affairs, 1994-96 Minister of Health.
(b. 1942-) |
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1985-86 Group-Chairperson
Venstresocialisterne Elisabeth Bruun Olesen
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| 1984 Group-Secretary
of the Leftwing Socialists and MP through a number of years. |
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1985-94 Political Spokesperson, Deputy Party-Chairperson and Party
Leader of Fremskridtspartiet Pia Kjærsgaard
1995- Leader of Dansk Folkeparti
1996- Party Chairperson and Political Spokesperson
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1984-87 Group-Secretary of
the Progress Party.
She founded Danish People's Party after a split in the likewise
right-wing Progress-Party where she had been leader since the founder,
Mogens Glistrup went to prison for tax-fraud. (b. 1947-)
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1985-89 Party Chairperson of
Fremskridtspartiet Anette Just |
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1994-97 Group Secretary of the Progress Party. (b. 1947-). |
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1986-87 Political Spokesperson of Det
Konservative Folkeparti Grethe Fenger Møller
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Conservative
MF 1977-93, Rådmand/ Councillor of Culture of Frederiksberg 1981-82,
Minister of Labour 1982-86
and later Chairperson of the Equality Council of the Premier Minister. She was
involved in a scandal that brought along the fall of the
conservative-liberal government in 1993 and convicted for not telling the
truth in court.
(b. 1941-)
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1987-91 Group-Chairperson
of Socialdemokraterne Ritt
Bjerregaard
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1973 and 1975-78 Minister of Education,
1979-82 Minister of Social Affairs,
1982 Deputy Group Chairperson and
1982-87 1. Deputy Group Chairperson of the Social Democrats,
1990-94, Vice-President of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Conference for
Security and Co-operation in Europe 1992-94, European Union Commissioner for Environment and Atomic Security
1995-99, Minister of Food, Agriculture and Fisheries
2000-01 and Lord Mayor of Copenhagen from
2006. (b. 1941-). |
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1987-88 Group-Chairperson of Kristelig
Folkeparti Inger Stilling Petersen
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| 1973-73,
1977-78 and
1987-90 Group-Secretary,
1984-87 and
1990-94 Deputy Group-Chairperson.
The Christian People's Party is a very small Christian party.
(b. 1929-) |
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1988-93 and 2001-07 Group-Chairperson
and Political Spokesperson of Det Radikale Venstre cand.pæd Marianne Jelved
1990-2007 Party Leader
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MP for the Social Liberals from 1987. 1993-2001 Vice-Premier Minister,
1993-2002 Minister of Economic Affairs, 1994-2002 Minister of Nordic
Co-operation. (b. 1943-).
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1989-2005 Party Chairperson and Leader
of Centrum-Demokraterne
1997-2000 Political Spokesperson Mimi Jacobsen
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| 1980-81 Deputy Group-Chairperson,
1981-82 and
1988-92 Political Spokesperson. 1982-84
Minister of Cultural Affairs,
1986-88 Minister of Social Affairs,
1987 Minister for Greenland and
1993-94 1. Vice-Premier and Minister for Coordination of Business-Policy,
1994 Minister of Co-ordination and of Industry,
1994-96 2. Vice-Premier and Minister of Business and Industry. The moderate Center
Democrats was founded by her father in 1973 as a break-away Faction
from the Social Democrats. From 2001 onwards the party did not re-enter the Folketing,
she later left the party and it was abolished in 2008. (b. 1948-). |
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1989 Group-Chairperson of Fremskridtspartiet Kirsten Jacobsen
1995-97 Political Spokesperson and Party Leader
1999-2000 Co-Leader Frihed 2000 (Freedom 2000)
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| 1974-75 and
1977-78 Deputy Group-Chairperson of
the Progress Party. In 1999 she and the other three MP's left, when the founder of the Party, Mogens Glistrup, was
readmitted to the party. They formed a parliamentary grouping named
"Freedom 2000" and did not stand in the 2001-elections. She
was Deputy Chairperson of the Folketing 1990-96. (b. 1942-)
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1989-90 Political Spokesperson of Det Konservative Folkeparti
Conni Hedegaard |
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Conservative MP. Minister of Environment 2005-07 and
Minister of Climate Affairs and Energy from 2007. Journalist |
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1990-93 Chairperson of Kommunistist
Forum (KF)
1993-2003 Chairperson of Dansk Kommunistisk Parti
(DKP)
2003- Chairperson of Kommunistisk Parti i Danmark (KiD) Betty Frydenberg Carlsson |
| The Communist Party
was the orthodox Communists - when the majority of the party joined
the Leftwing Alliance, (Enhedslisten) she took over as leader of the
tiny leftovers of the old DKP. (b. 1944-). |
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1991-93 Party Chairperson
of Det
Radikale Venstre Grethe Erichsen
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| 1990-91 Deputy Party-Chairperson of
the Social Liberals. |
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1993-94 Group-Chairperson
Centrum-Demokraterne Bente Juncker
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MF 1981-94, 1982-93 Group-Secretary
and
1984-85 Deputy Group-Chairperson of the Centre Democrats,
1994
Minister of Social Affairs.
(b. 1944-)
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1993-97 Party-Chairperson Det Radikale Venstre
2007- Group Chairperson and Party Leader Margrethe
Vestager
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| 1998-2001
Minister of Education and Deputy Party Leader and Vice-Chairperson of the Parliamentary
Group 2001-07 of the Social Liberals. Mother of 3 children. (b. 1968-). |
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1993-98
Organisatorial Party Chairperson of Centrum Demokraterne Inger
Boriis
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| The party
leader of the Centre Democrats was and is Mimi Jacobsen, but Inger Boriis was in charge of
the party organisation. |
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1994-98
and 2002-05 Group-Chairperson
of
Socialdemokraterne Pia Gjellerup
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| 1987-2007
MP, 1990-93 and
from 2001 Group-Secretary of the Social Democrats.
As Group-Secretary she was also Secretary of the Presidium of the Folketing 1994-98. Minister 1993 and 1998-2001. Unmarried and no children.
(b. 1959-)
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1994-95
and
2000-01
Group-Chairperson of
Enhedslisten Jette Ryde Gottlieb
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The Unity List is a merger of a number of former small leftwing parties.
(b. 1948-)
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1995-97 Political Spokesperson and Deputy Party-Leader of Det Konservative Folkeparti Anne Birgitte Lundholt
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1991-94 2. Deputy
Group-Chairperson,
1994-95 Deputy Group-Chairperson and in 1997 she was candidate for the leadership of the
Conservative People's Party.
1989-93
Minister of Industry
1990-93 Minister of Energy.
Unmarried and no children. (b. 1952- ).
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1998-99
Party-Leader and Political
Spokesperson of Det Konservative Folkeparti Pia Christmas-Møller
2001-07
Political Spokesperson |
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Vice-President of
the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly from 2005. Left the
Conservative People's Party in 2007 after she was dumped as
Spokesperson, independent MP since then. Unmarried and no children.
(b. 1961-) |
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1998-2002 Chairperson of Fælles Kurs
Gitte Thomsen
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| Common Course was no longer in the Folketing since
1997 and in 2002 it merged with Denmark's Communist Party.
Vice-Chairperson of DKP from 2003. |
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1999-2001 Political Spokesperson of
Det Konservative Folkeparti
2008- Political Leader and Party Chairperson Lene Espersen
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Conservative MP from 1994.
Minister of Justice 2001-08, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of
Economic and Business Affairs. (b. 1965-). |
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2000-01 Group
Chairperson of Det Liberale
Højre Inge Refshauge
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Together with another MP she left the Danish People's Party and joined the new The Liberal Right, which had not previously been represented in Parliament. It brought the number of parties in the parliament to 12. Later founding member of Democratic People's Party.
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2000-01 Group-Chairperson of Det Radikale
Venstre Elisabeth Arnold
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| 1990-94 Group-Secretary
and
1994-2000 Deputy Group-Chairperson of the Social Liberals.
She was Vice-Chairperson of the Folketing 1996-98 and Secretary from
2005. (b. 1941-)
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2000-01 Acting Chairperson of Det Radikale Venstre Lone Loklindt
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| 1997-2000
Deputy Party-Chairperson. 2001 she was candidate for the post of
party chairperson of the Social Liberals. (b. 1960-). |
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2001-03
Party Chairperson of Fremskridtspartiet Åse Heskjær
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Former Vice-Chairperson
of the Progress
Party, a rightwing populist and xenophobic party, which was represented
in the parliament until 2000. |
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2002-05
Chairperson of Kristendemokraterne Marianne Karlsmose
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| Former
Candidate to the European Parliament for the Christian Democrats, Primary School Teacher.
Candidate for the Folketing in 2005 but the party did not pass the
2% limit in order to enter the parliament and she resigned.
Married to cand.theol. Birger Nielsen. Mother of 2 sons. (b.
1973-). |
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2004-07 and
2007-09 Group-Chairperson of
Enhedslisten Line Barfod |
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A solicitor and MP of the leftwing
Unity List from 2001. Vice-Chairperson of the Group in 2007 and from
2009. Mother
of four children. (b.
1964-). |
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2005 Acting Group Chairperson of Venstre
Rikke Hvilshøj (10.02-18.02) |
| Deputy Mayor of Frederiksberg
1998-2002, MP 1998-2007
and Deputy Group Chairperson
of The Rigtwing Liberals since 2001-07. She became Acting Chair since the
previous chair lost his seat during the elections. Minister of
Integration and Refugees 2005-07. Married to
Karsten Anker Petersen
and mother of a daughter (b. 1999) and a son (b. 2003). She is (b.
1970-). |
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2005 Acting Group Chairperson of Det Konservative Folkeparti
Else Theill Sørensen |
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MF 2001-05, Group Secretary 2001-04
and Deputy Group Chairperson
2004-05 of the Conservative People's Party. As the previous chairperson did not stand for reelection she became
Acting Chairperson on 09.02 but the next day it became clear that
she had lost her seat to the Social Liberals after a recount of the
votes. (b. 1941-). |
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2005- Chairperson of
Socialdemokraterne Helle Thorning-Schmidt |
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Social Democrat Member of the European Parliament
1999-2004 and MF from 2005. Married to Stephen Kinnock and mother of
two daughters. (b. 1966-) |
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2005-06 Political Spokesperson
of Socialdemokraterne Lotte Bundsgaard
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Teacher and MF for the Social Democrats 1997-07,
Minister of Housing and Cities and
Minister for Equality
2000-01,
Vice-Chairperson
of the Social Democrats 2002-05. In 2006 she was offered the post of
Vice-Chairperson of the Group, but said no. Lotte Koed Bundsgaard is married to Søren Thorsager and
mother of a daughter born 1999, and a son
born in February 2002. (b.
1973-)
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2005-
Chairperson of
Junibevægelsen
Hanne Dahl |
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Until 2005 the EU-Sceptical June
Movement had collective leadership and she was its chief spokesperson from
2004.
Cand. teol and
priest. (b.
1970-). |
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2005 Acting Chairperson
of Socialistisk Folkeparti
Trine Bendix Knudsen (02.04-29.04) |
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Vice-Chairperson of the Socialist People's Party 2004-05. She acted as leader
after the previous Chairman resigned until the election of a new, a 53 year
old man who won over two female candidates. (b. 1968-). |
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2005-08
Chairperson of Kristendemokraterne Bodil Kornbek
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| Member of
the Parliament 2001-05 and Group Secretary of the
Christian Democrats 2002-04. The Party has not been
represented in Parliament since 2005, and in 2008 the Party
Conference decided an extremist rightwing programme and ousted
Kornbek, who had tried to turn the party in a more moderate
direction. She resigned from the party with immediate effect. (b. 1961-). |
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2007 Joint Leader of Ny Alliance Gitte
Seeberg |
| 1999-2001 Group-Secretary of and Secretary of the Folketing (Diet) and
2001-04 Deputy Group Chairperson of the Conservative People's Party. Member of the European Parliament 2004-07. Left her party and formed The New Alliance with two former members of the New Alliance
and was elected to parliament again.
After the 2007-elections she left the leadership, and in 2008 she
left the party and became an independent. Mother of one daughter. (b. 1960-). |
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2007
Group Chairperson of the Centrumsdemokraterne Louise Frevert |
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Member of Copenhagen City Council for the
Conservative People's Party 1994-97 and 1998, for the xenophobe
Danish People's Party 1999-2007 and for the strongly pro-immigrant
Centrumsdemokraterne from 2007, Member of Folketinget from 2001 for
Danish People's Party from 2001 and the Centrumsdemokraterne from
2007 as their only MP for a few months until the elections. Mother of 4 children with her 2 first
husbands, now married to Susanne Christiansen. (b. 1953-). |
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2007-09
Political Spokesperson of Venstre Inger Støjberg |
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Member of the City Council of Viborg
1994-2002, MP from 2001 and Deputy Group Chairperson of the Rightwing
Liberals 2005-07 and Minister of Employment and Equality from 2009. (b. 1973-) |
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2007- Political Spokesperson of Det Konservative Folkeparti
2008- Group Chairperson Henriette Kjær
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She
is a librarian-student, and has been Conservative MF from 1994, Minister of Social Affairs and Minister of Equality
2001-04 and Minister of Family and Consumer Affairs 2004-05, until
she resigned after it was revealed that she and her partner had been
convicted twice for not paying their bills. She Lives together with
Erik Skov Petersen and is mother of two sons born in 1996 and 1998. (b.
1966-) |
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2009- Political Spokesperson
of Enhedslisten
Johanne Schmidt-Nielsen |
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BA in Social Science and MP for the Unity List from 2007. (b.
1984-). |
Last update 07.04.09 |