Bertel Haarder
Bertel Haarder Geismar (born September 7th, 1944 in Rønshoved) is a Danish politician and MP for the Liberal Party. He has been a minister in several governments
Political career[edit]
Haarder had his 20th anniversary as a minister in 2011. This makes him the second-longest minister since the change of regime in 1901. He was Education and Science Minister from the 10th of September 1987 until the 25th of January 1993. Haarder was nominated and elected to the Parliament several times and was also an MEP from 1994 to 2001.
He was vice-president of the European Parliament from 1997 to 1999. When Lars Løkke Rasmussen took over as Prime Minister on April 5th in 2009, Haarder continued as Minister of Education. On 23 February 2010, a major cabinet reshuffle saw Haarder appointed as Minister for Health.
Haarder lost his ministerial post when his bloc lost the general election in 2011 on 15 September, though Haarder took Henrik Dam Kristensen's post as president of the Nordic Council. On 30 September 2011, he was a member of the Parliamentary Bureau.
Education[edit]
Having been a student from Sønderborg State School in 1964, Harder undertook scholarship studies in the United States from 1964 to 1965. He was a candidate in political science at Aarhus University in 1971 specializing in Grundtvig's theories.
