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Encyclopedia > Arne Melchior

Arne Melchior, born 1924, is a son of Marcus Melchior. He is a Danish politician of Jewish descent, and a supporter of Jewish causes. Marcus Melchior (1897-1969) was acting chief rabbi of Denmark in 1943 at the time of the rescue of the Danish Jews. ...


Melchior was active in the Social Democratic Party, but left this party with other to found the Centre Democrats. The Social Democrats (Socialdemokraterne), is a Danish political party. ... The Centre Democrats (Centrum-Demokraterne or CD) is a Danish political party. ...


He was member of the Danish Parliament, the Folketing, for the years 1973-75 and 1977-2001, and traffic minister in the Conservative Poul Schlüter government from 1982-86, and Minister for Communcation and Tourism in the Social Democratic Poul Nyrup Rasmussen government from 1993-94. (The party affiliation mentioned applies to the Prime Ministers only, most Danish governments are coalition governments.) The Folketing [], or Folketinget, is the national parliament of Denmark. ... The Conservative Peoples Party (Danish Det Konservative Folkeparti) is a Danish political party. ... Poul Schlüter is a Danish politician, born in Tønder, in southern Jutland, Denmark in 1929. ... Poul Nyrup Rasmussen Poul Nyrup Rasmussen (born June 15, 1943) was the Prime Minister of Denmark from January 25, 1993 to November 27, 2001. ...


He represented his party in the Folketing's Foreign Policy Committee 1994-2001, when he was forced to step down after having publicly defended Israel's use of moderate physical coercion on terror suspects. He was also forced to leave the Centre Democratic Parliamentary group - and the way he was treated by party leaders led to the complete collapse of the Party's vote at the General Election 2001 from which the Party has never recovered. The Danish Parliamentary Election of 2001 held on November 20, 2001 saw a dramatic change in the political composition of the Danish parliament or Folketing. ...


Others

1975-79, Melchior headed the Danish Zionist Federation.


External links

  • Danish Zionist Federation

 

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