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Claus Hjort Frederiksen
Minister of Defence
In office
28 November 2016 – 27 June 2019
Prime MinisterLars Løkke Rasmussen
Preceded byPeter Christensen
Succeeded byTrine Bramsen
Minister of Finance
In office
28 June 2015 – 28 November 2016
Prime MinisterLars Løkke Rasmussen
Preceded byBjarne Corydon
Succeeded byKristian Jensen
In office
7 April 2009 – 3 October 2011
Prime MinisterLars Løkke Rasmussen
Preceded byLars Løkke Rasmussen
Succeeded byBjarne Corydon
Personal details
Born (1947-09-04) 4 September 1947 (age 76)
Copenhagen, Denmark
Political partyVenstre
Alma materUniversity of Copenhagen

Claus Hjort Frederiksen (born 4 September 1947) is a Danish politician of the Venstre party, who served as the Danish Minister for Defence from 2016 to 2019. He was Minister for Finance from 2015 to 2016, having previously served in the same capacity from 2009 to 2011, as member of the first Løkke Rasmussen Cabinet. From 2001 to 2009, he was Minister of Employment in the first, second, and third cabinets of Anders Fogh Rasmussen. He is a member of the liberal party Venstre. He has been a member of parliament (Folketinget) since 2005.

Frederiksen served as party secretary of Venstre 1985–2001, and as such he served as Fogh Rasmussen's closest advisor[1] in creating the political program that eventually led to Fogh Rasmussen's ascent to the office of Prime Minister. The political program involved a closer relationship and dependency on the Danish People's Party and Frederiksen has notedly remarked that there exists a special community of values between said party and Venstre.[2]

Jesper Tynells revelations about the Minister's "less democratic methods"

In 2009 radio journalist Jesper Tynell won the Cavling Prize for a series of 15 radiospots in DR P1's ”Orientering” showing [the]"minister's less democratic methods". Among the revelations were:

  • Claus Hjort Frederiksen (as Minister of Employment) gave the parliament false information.
  • The Minister abolished the requirements to foreign worker safety in dangerous jobs - in secret and outside parliament.
  • The Ministry asked the municipal administers to rule (the so-called 300-hour rule) in an illegal manner.
  • The Ministry ordered misleading figures from Arbejdsmarkedsstyrelsen to turn the public debate to their advantage.
  • Officials deleted incriminating documents from the Ministry's own archives.[3][4]

The broadcasts have not had any influence on Claus Hjort Frederiksen's career.

References

  1. ^ http://www.bt.dk/article/20040305/nyheder/103050215/
  2. ^ http://www.information.dk/187507
  3. ^ Prismodtagere Archived 2010-03-26 at the Wayback Machine
  4. ^ DR P1 Orienterings webside med radioprogrammerne og Tynells metoderapport Archived 2011-11-27 at the Wayback Machine
Political offices
Preceded by Minister for Employment
2001–2009 		Succeeded by
Preceded by Minister for Finance
2009–2011 		Succeeded by
Preceded by Minister for Finance
2015–2016 		Succeeded by
Preceded by Minister for Defence
2016–2019 		Succeeded by
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