Lone Dybkjær
Danish politician (1940–2020)
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Lone Dybkjær (23 May 1940 – 20 July 2020) was a Danish politician. She served three non-consecutive terms as a member of the Folketing.
Lone Dybkjær | |
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Lone Dybkjær | |
| Member of the Folketing | |
| Constituency | Vestre Storkreds |
| In office 1971–1977 | |
| In office 1979–1994 | |
| In office 2005–2011 | |
| Member of the European Parliament | |
| In office 1994–2004 | |
| Spouse of the Prime Minister | |
| In office 1995 – 27 November 2001 | |
| Prime Minister | Poul Nyrup Rasmussen |
| Preceded by | Lisbeth Schlüter |
| Succeeded by | Anne-Mette Rasmussen |
| Minister for the Environment of Denmark | |
| In office 3 June 1988 – 18 December 1990 | |
| Prime Minister | Poul Schlüter |
| Preceded by | Christian Christensen |
| Succeeded by | Per Stig Møller |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 23 May 1940 |
| Died | 20 July 2020 (aged 80) Copenhagen, Denmark |
| Party | Danish Social Liberal Party |
| Spouse | |
| Alma mater | Technical University of Denmark |
Between 1988 and 1990, she was Minister for the Environment of Denmark during the second Poul Schlüter cabinet. Between 1994 and 2004, she was a member of the European Parliament.
Political career
She was a member of the Danish Social Liberal Party. She was a member of the European Parliament for the party from 1994 to 2004 and also a member of the Danish Parliament (Folketinget), where she served as minister of Environment during the Cabinet of Poul Schlüter.
She was a member of the eminent international Council of Patrons of the Asian University for Women (AUW) in Chittagong, Bangladesh.[1][2]
Personal life
She graduated from Rungsted Statsskole in 1958 and took a Master of Engineering in chemistry at the Technical University of Denmark in 1964.
In 1994, she married then-Prime Minister Poul Nyrup Rasmussen.
Dybkjær died on 20 July 2020 in Copenhagen from breast cancer, aged 80.[3]
