Background
MELCHIOR, Arne was born on October 22, 1924 in Copenhagen, Denmark. Parents: Marcus Melchior and Meta Melchior (née Schomstein).
Member of the European Parliament politician
MELCHIOR, Arne was born on October 22, 1924 in Copenhagen, Denmark. Parents: Marcus Melchior and Meta Melchior (née Schomstein).
Commercial School; spoken languages: Danish, English, German.
Melchior was active in the Social Democratic Party but left this party in 1973 to co-found the Centre Democrats. He was minister of traffic in the Conservative Poul Schlüter coalition government from 1982-1986, and Minister for Communication and Tourism in the Social Democratic Poul Nyrup Rasmussen coalition government from 1993-1994. He later chose to leave the Centre Democratic Parliamentary group.
The Centre Democrats lost their representation in parliament in the parliamentary election of 2001.
The party was dissolved on 1 February 2008. 1975-1979, Melchior headed the Danish Zionist Federation.
Jewish
He represented his party in parliament"s Foreign Policy Committee 1994-2001, when he was forced to step down after having publicly defended Israel"s use of moderate physical coercion on terror suspects.
He was member of Danish Parliament during 1973-1975 and again 1977-2001.
Spouse Nina Hellwig-Melchior (née Hellwig), 1968. Children: Dan, David, Jacob.