Mogens Glistrup

Mogens Glistrup ( born May 28, 1926 in Rønne on Bornholm, † July 1, 2008 Virum / Lyngby - Taarbæk municipality ) was a Danish politician and founder of the Progressive Party. This he held 1973-1983 and again in 1987-1990 as a deputy in the Folketing.

Life

Mogens Glistrup was the son of Lars Glistrup school teacher and his wife Ester, born Jensen. In 1950 he married Lene Svendsen ( 1925-2013 ). The couple had four children together.

Glistrup studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1955 at the State Court and the Supreme Court. From 1956 to 1963 he worked as a lecturer in tax law at the University of Copenhagen.

Provocateur and tax rebel

Caused a stir Mogens Glistrup first time on 30 January 1971, when he declared the payment of taxes is immoral in a live broadcast of the Danish television. Tax evaders, however, would just as patriotic act like the Eisenbahnsaboteure during the German occupation in World War II. He showed his degree before tax with a payroll tax rate of zero percent. After this show several parties tried to win Glistrup for a parliamentary candidacy. He also reached first on the list of the Conservative Party, but the decision was made ​​shortly thereafter reversed.

To Glistrups as entertaining as radical proposals was to abolish the Danish military and replace it with an answering machine, which in all world languages ​​" We surrender " should report. The save you money and human lives in case of emergency, because Denmark was not defensible anyway.

Glistrup founded on 22 August 1972 at the Restaurant " Grøften " in Tivoli, Copenhagen, the Progress Party ( Frp ). Main concerns were the limitation of the income tax, the reduction of state bureaucracy and simplify the legislative process. With this program, his party was called after the landslide election in 1973 second- largest party in the Danish parliament and received 28 out of 175 seats. In the following elections in 1975, 1977, 1979 and 1981, the party turned out to be permanent element in the Danish party structure. Glistrup stepped up in 1984 as a top candidate ( " Campaign Manager " ) to his party, but never allowed himself to choose the chairman.

Glistrup largely prevented a constructive parliamentary work. So refused to Frp and 1989 budget laws all their consent. Because of his provocative and simplistic statements, he was shunned by the other hand, the established parties and virtually excluded from the legislative work.

Glistrups creative tax savings led to a prison sentence for tax evasion, which he had to serve until March 11, 1985 of 31 August 1983. Pia Kjærsgaard moved for him as deputies to parliament. She stepped into the election campaigns in 1987 as the top candidate and opened the party to the internal wing fighting for a more conventional co-operation with other groups in order to gain greater political voice. After his return to Parliament in 1987 Glistrup appeared increasingly isolated and broke publicly in 1989 with the party line.

Glistrup was considered by many as the only viable head of his party. As time increased, however, in political observers the impression that hid behind his cynical calculus of pure madness: Crazy but harmless as the journalist Georg Metz summed lenient.

Political descent

November 13, 1990 Mogens Glistrup founded the " Trivselspartiet " (Party of recovery ). Just one week later sat Prime Minister Poul Schlüter new elections because the Social Democrats of his economic policies had refused to consent. In the remaining three weeks until the election Glistrups Trivselspartiet entered into a joint list with Fælles course, a communist party of protest, which had been missing only 0.1 percent two years earlier, to overcome the barrier boundary. This time, it should be 0.2 percent. Glistrup, who had formally remained a member of the Frp, 1991 not only lost a seat and vote in the party leadership, but has been completely ruled out. The old trailer tried with recurring opportunities to achieve his return.

It was not until long after Pia Kjærsgaard 1995 had left the Frp and founded with like-minded people, the right-wing populist Danish People's Party, Glistrup was allowed to return to Frp 1999. His comeback provoked the resignation of the entire Folketing fraction. The now extra-parliamentary party made micro Glistrup 2001 its leading candidate. The election result was disappointing 0.6 percent. He retired from active politics, not without allowing themselves to confer before the " lifetime honorary membership " in the Frp.

Anti- Islamism

From the early 1980s, the limitation of immigration to Denmark to Glistrups main concern was. Because contemptuous statements about Muslims Glistrup was repeatedly fined, was first raised in 1985 against the infidels to holy war because of the statement that all Muslims would be. 1999, Glistrup in the daily Berlingske Tidende known: "Of course I 'm a racist - these are all good Danes. One is either a racist or a traitor. " 2003 Glistrup was convicted of the utterance, " the followers of Muhammad [ had ] come to Denmark to expel the Danes from their homeland. " The 20 - day jail sentence has been served 2005.

Trivia

Glistrups bornholmische melodic accent and his clear joy of calculated provocation became the target of numerous satires. Because of its distinctive appearance, he was nicknamed " Sea Wolf". Since 1973 a joint interview with the chairman of the Centre Party, Erhard Jacobsen, Glistrup was considered a fan of marzipan bread.