Søren Krarup is a Danish pastor, writer, politician and Member of Parliament for the Danish People"s Party from 2001 until 2011.
Career
Krarup is a significant and influential critic from the Danish national conservative movement, as well as the theological movement Tidehverv. Mr. Krarup created a minor stir in December 2007 by announcing that he would like to see Scania, Halland and Blekinge reunited with Denmark, if they expressed such a desire through a referendum.
Politics
He has been regarded as the main ideologue of the Danish People"s Party, although he rejects the particular term himself, as he regards "love for the fatherland" not to be an ideology or "-ism", but rather a fundamental precondition for one"s life. He is a noted critic of Cultural Radicalism (Danish cultural relativist movement), Marxism and official Danish social policy, European Union policy and immigration and refugee policy. He is married to Anette Elisabeth (née Lund Steen), with whom he has four children, one of whom, Marie, has also entered politics.
From 2000 to 2001 he represented his party on the board of DR. He was from 1965 co-publisher of Tidehverv, and editor from 1984.
Membership
In 2007, while he was still not a member of the association, he however stated in a speech at its jubilee that he continued to hold its magazine "with great pleasure", and said he regarded the association as "the freedom fighters of our time". He also expressed the view that all members of the Danish minority in Schleswig ought to carry the hope that at some future time Denmark"s border should be extended to the Eider river, restoring Danish rule over Southern Schleswig which is now part of Germany.