Aksel Møller

Møller became a member of the Frederiksberg city council in 1937 and was one of the figures which made Frederiksberg a conservative area.^[4] He was first elected to the Parliament for the Conservative People's Party in April 1939 and served there until his death in 1958.^[6] He was also a member of the Church Committee which had been established in 1920.^[7]

Møller founded an organization named the Danish Youth Association during the occupation of Denmark by Nazi Germany.^[4] The association was a supporter of the occupying forces until 1943, and he was briefly arrested by the Nazis the same year.^[4]

Møller was elected as the mayor of Frederiksberg in 1948 and remained in office until 1950.^[3] He was the minister of interior and housing in the cabinet led by Erik Eriksen between 30 October 1950 and 30 September 1953.^[6] Møller was again elected as the mayor of Frederiksberg in 1954, and his tenure ended in 1958.^[3] He also became the chairman of the Conservative People's Party's parliamentary group in 1955 which he held until 1958.^[3]

Møller was among the ideologists of the Conservative People's Party.^[4] His approach was known as national conservatism in the 1930s which opposed both socialism and liberalism.^[4] He argued that conservatism was not an ideology in that the latter was a theoretical construct.^[2] For him it was middle-classes which could improve and protect the social development.^[2] He emphasized the significance of the familial piousness.^[7] In the mid-1950s he began to oppose the idea of the welfare state.^[8]

Møller married Gred Elise Westergren in Malmö on 16 May 1931.^[1] He died in Frederiksberg on 20 March 1958 and was buried in Frederiksberg Ældre Kirkegård.^[1][9]