Anker Jørgensen, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Prime Minister of Denmark
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Place of Birth: Copenhagen, Capital Region of Denmark, Denmark
About Anker Jørgensen
- Anker Henrik Jørgensen (13 July 1922 – 20 March 2016) was a Danish politician who served at various times as Prime Minister and Foreign Minister of Denmark.
- Between 1972 and 1982 he led five cabinets as Prime Minister.
- Jørgensen was President of the Nordic Council in 1986 and 1991. He led or represented the Social Democratic Party for well over 30 years.
- His legacy is ambivalent.
- Politically, he is considered by many right wing followers to have been largely unsuccessful, having failed to mitigate the impact of the economic crisis of the 1970s and 1980s.
- Nonetheless, he is generally respected and even loved throughout Denmark for his personal integrity and down-to-earth personality, often exemplified in his refusal of moving into the official Prime Minister residence Marienborg, preferring to stay with his wife in their small apartment in a working class area of Copenhagen.He has been described as not having the image of a strong or visionary leader, but, through his down-to-earth and earnest demeanor, he managed to maintain a wide support for the Danish welfare state.
- In 1990, he was chosen to travel to Iraq to negotiate the release of a group of Danish hostages with Saddam Hussein.
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