Helga Pedersen (Denmark)

Inger Helga Pedersen (* June 24, 1911 in Hulby Møllegård, Tårnborg; † 27 January 1980 Korsør ) was a Danish lawyer and politician. She held office from 1950 to 1953 as Danish Minister of Justice and in 1971 elected as the first woman judge at the European Court of Human Rights.

Life

Helga Pedersen was born in 1911 as the daughter of Jens Peder Nicolaj Pedersen ( 1877-1955 ) and Vilhelmine Sofie Kolding ( 1884-1973 ). She attended the High School until 1930 Slagelse, then studied from 1931 to 1936 Law at the University of Copenhagen. She then found employment in the Danish Ministry of Justice. From 1940 to 1946 she worked as a private secretary. A scholarship enabled her in 1946 to spend a year in the U.S. and study at Columbia University in New York.

Back in Denmark, it was in 1947 appointed to the interim judge at Østre Landsret. A year later she moved to the City Court of Copenhagen. There, they held back the first office of an interim judge, but received in 1949 a full judgeship.

As in Denmark, a minority government of Venstre, to which she belonged, and Det Conservative Folkeparti was formed in October 1950 she was appointed the new Prime Minister Erik Eriksen Minister of Justice. During his reign, she was a member of the Constitutional Commission, whose proposals were approved for constitutional reform in May 1953 in a referendum of the Danish population. The parliamentary elections of September 22, 1953 resulted in a social democratic government under Hans Hedtoft. At this Venstre was no longer involved, so Pedersen retired after only one term from the Cabinet. But you could win a seat in the Folketing, which she held until 1964.

She initially returned to her job in the City Court of Copenhagen. From 1956 she worked as a judge at the Østre Landsret, and in 1964 she became a judge at the Højesteret, the Supreme Court of Denmark, appointed. As the first woman was elected in 1971 to the judge at the European Court of Human Rights. After the end of their first term of office in 1980 it was proposed by the Danish Government again as a candidate, but died a day before the election at the age of 68 years.

From 1949 to 1974 she was a member of the Danish National Commission for UNESCO, 1949-1970 it belonged repeated the Danish delegation to the General Conference of UNESCO on. Pedersen also was committed to the rights of women and sat from 1949 to 1950 the National Danish women before, in which all Danish women's associations are members. She represented Denmark at the 1950 meetings of the UN Commission on the Status of Women.

Swell

  • Doc. 4459 (17 December 1979) and Doc. 4515 (8 April 1980) of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council
  • Inger Dübeck: Helga Pedersen. In: Dansk leksikon kvindebiografisk. (online)
  • International Biographical Archive 21/1954 of May 17, 1954
  • Yearbook of the European Convention on Human Rights. Volume 14, 1971. Pp. 54-56. Martinus Nijhoff Publishers. (online)
  • Member of the Folketing
  • Minister of Justice (Denmark)
  • Richter ( Denmark)
  • Judge (European Court of Human Rights)
  • Dane
  • Born in 1911
  • Died in 1980
  • Woman
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