Ritt Bjerregaard

Ritt Bjerregaard ( born May 19, 1941 in Copenhagen) is a Danish social democratic politician. She was several times minister for four years, EU Commissioner from 2006 to January 1, 2010 Lord Mayor of Copenhagen.

Life

Ritt Bjerregaard grew up in Copenhagen's Vesterbro district workers. The father was a carpenter, his mother an accountant. After graduation in 1958, she studied at a teacher training college. After the state exam for teaching, she worked several years as a teacher. She was early times politically active. It was in 1966 with Søren Mørch, historian married, and has since lived in Odense. In her free time, she is active in private Ökogarten where it operates particularly apple orchards. She also writes autobiographical related experience and non-fiction, has published several books herself.

Public offices

  • The political career ride Bjerrgaards began in 1970 with the membership of the City Council of Odense.
  • Bjerregaard was a member of the Danish Parliament on 21 September 1971 to January 22, 1995 and again from 20 November 2001.
  • She was Danish Minister of Education from September 27 to December 19, 1973 and again 13 February 1975 to 22 December 1978 and Social Affairs, 26 October 1979 to 30 December 1981, Minister of Nutrition, on 23 February 2000 to 27 November 2001.
  • Ritt Bjerregaard was EU Commissioner for the Environment and Nuclear Safety in Santer Commission in 1995 to 1999.
  • Bjerregaard won the direct election of the Lord Mayor in the Danish capital Copenhagen on 16 November 2005. At the local elections in November 2009, she has not let up again.

The affairs

Ritt Bjerregaard has brought into the spotlight of the media several times:

  • When she left in 1977 to call back as Minister a ferry on the Great Belt, because she had come too late to leave.
  • As she let herself be quartered in 1978 during a UNESCO conference in Paris in a suite in a luxury hotel Ritz, while 60,000 tax crowns (then $ 15,000 ) spent. This so-called Ritz affair has cost the post of Minister of Education.
  • When it came out in 1994 that she entertained a large apartment in Copenhagen, while they received a tax-free allowance for living outside Copenhagen parliamentarians at the same time.
  • When in 1999 she wrote a book about her time as Commissioner, in which very rough characteristics of the Commission colleagues and female colleagues occurred. The book had to be recalled, but was printed with or without their knowledge and without their consent, of the Copenhagen daily Politiken as a supplement to the newspaper.
  • When she was shopping for his own office in 2005 as a newly elected Lord Mayor of Copenhagen new office furniture for 1 million kroner ( 130,000 euros ).

However, it should be emphasized that the affairs have never led to police investigations or criminal proceedings. Ritt Bjerregaard has always been the view expressed that the charges against them were unjustified broadly.

It is argued that Ritt Bjerregaard supposed to have said in the seventies in connection with the implementation of a new elementary school law: " what can not learn all, no one is supposed to learn ." It denies this statement and its authenticity was never proven with certainty. The fact that she has made ​​strong for an egalitarian education policy, but can be poorly contested.

When she ran for the post of Mayor in Copenhagen, she is said to have promised to be constructed to not more than 5000 crowns monthly rent within 5 years 5,000 apartments. When she retired from office, had been built 14 of these so-called non-profit homes. Ritt Bjerregaard denies that there had been a promise, only she has brought a perspective for the future expressed in their view.

Works ( Danish)

  • Strid, 1979
  • Til venner og fjender, 1982
  • Heltindehistorier, 1983
  • I oppositional, 1987
  • Fyn med omliggende øer, with Søren Mørch, 1990
  • Strikkeklubbens Gæster, 1990
  • He Verden så stor, så stor, 1990
  • Ministeren, 1994
  • Mine æbler, 2003

Swell

  • Den Store Danske Encyklopædi ( Danish Encyclopedia ), Copenhagen 1995.
  • Personal Website ( Danish)
  • Dansk Kvindebiografisk leksikon ( Danish)
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