Monarch Margrethe II Succeeded by Hans Engell Children Peter Schluter Preceded by Hans Peter Clausen | Name Poul Schluter Preceded by Anker Jorgensen Preceded by Erik Ninn-Hansen | |
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Role Former Prime Minister of Denmark Party Conservative People\'s Party Spouse Anne Marie Vessel Schluter (m. 1989), Lisbeth Schluter (m. 1979–1988), Majken Steen-Andersen (m. 1963–1978) Books The Nordic Countries - One Workplace, One Market: A Report on Removal of Cross-border Obstacles by Special Envoy Poul Schluter 2005 Similar People Anker Jorgensen, Poul Nyrup Rasmussen, Uffe Ellemann‑Jensen, Anne Marie Vessel Schluter, Lars Lokke Rasmussen | ||
Succeeded by Poul Nyrup Rasmussen Education University of Copenhagen | ||
President Reagan's Toast for Prime Minister Poul Schluter of Denmark on September 10, 1985
Poul Holmskov Schlüter ([pʰʌʊ̯l hʌlmsɡ̊ʌʊ̯ slyd̥ɐ], 3 April 1929) is a Danish politician, who served as Prime Minister of Denmark from 1982 to 1993. He was the first member of the Conservative People's Party to become Prime Minister, as well as the first conservative to hold the office since 1901.
Contents
- President Reagans Toast for Prime Minister Poul Schluter of Denmark on September 10 1985
- Early life and career
- Prime Minister
- Later life
- National honours
- Foreign honours
- References
Early life and career
Born in Tønder, south Jutland, he graduated from the University of Copenhagen in 1957 with a degree in law, and joined the bar in 1960. Schlüter was a member of the Folketing (Danish parliament) for the Conservative People's Party from 1964 to 1994. He was also Chairman of the Conservative People's Party from 1974 to 1977 and from 1981 to 1993.
Prime Minister
In 1982, after Prime Minister Anker Jørgensen was forced to resign, Schlüter cobbled together a four-party coalition and was appointed his successor. During his time as Prime Minister, he was named "Nordic Politician of the Year" (in 1984). He has since been granted a large number of Danish and international awards and medals.
Previously, he had served as a member of the Council of Europe from 1971 to 1974, and had headed the Danish Delegation to the Nordic Council, where he served as a member of the Council Presidium, in 1978 and 1979. He retired as Prime Minister in 1993 after an inquiry found that he had misinformed the Danish Parliament. The case was known as the Tamil Case (Danish: Tamilsagen), as it involved asylum requests from Tamil refugees.
Later life
Following his retirement as Prime Minister in 1993, Schlüter served as a member of the European Parliament from 1994 to 1999, the first three years as Vice-President of the body.
In 2003, Schlüter was appointed by the Swedish Minister of Co-operation as her special envoy to promote freedom of movement in the Nordic countries. Poul Schlüter was to work on ways of increasing individual freedom of movement and present specific proposals to the Nordic Council Session in October 2003.
In 2004, Poul Schlüter co-founded the first Danish free-market think tank CEPOS, and gave the opening speech at CEPOS' opening reception at the Hotel D'Angleterre in Copenhagen.