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OBITUARY POUL HARTLING Pastor, Prime Minister and United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees Poul Hartling was born on 14 August 1914, and he died on Sunday, 30 April 2000, at the age of 85. He will be remembered by most of us outside his native Denmark as the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees from 1978 to 1985. He was born in Copenhagen in 1914, went to school there and took a degree in Divinity at the University. After the war he served as a Lutheran Pastor and later as Principal of a teacher training college. Education was very much in his blood, his father had been Minister of Education, and it was to this rather than to his ministry that he increasingly dedicated his time. But politics was also to call him, and in 1957 he was elected to the Danish Parliament as a Liberal, becoming leader of the Liberal Party Group in 1965. He served as Minister of Foreign Affairs in the Coalition Government formed in 1968, and following the elections in December 1973 he was asked to form his own administration, although very much in a minority capacity. The Liberals held only 22 seats in
International Journal of Refugee Law – Oxford University Press
Published: Apr 1, 2000
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