Background
HARTLING, Poul was born on August 14, 1914 in Copenhagen. Son of late M. Hartling (former Minister of Education) and late Mathilde Hartling.
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Erik Eriksen: Mennesket og politikeren : en biografi (Danish Edition)
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Poul Hartling
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Education
Master of Divinity.
Career
Hartling served as Foreign Minister of Denmark from 1968 until 1971 in the Cabinet of Hilmar Baunsgaard. In 1973 Hartling became Prime Minister of Denmark when the sitting Danish Social Democratic Party government of Anker Jørgensen was unable to form a government after the 1973 Danish parliamentary election. Hartling was Prime Minister from 18 December 1973 until 13 February 1975, when Anker Jørgensen and the Social Democrats came to power again.
In social policy, Hartling"s time as Prime Minister witnessed the passage of the Social Assistance Acting of 1974, which instructed municipal authorities to provide day-care and recreation centres for children and young people.
Hartling then left Danish politics to work for the United Nations. He was the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees) from 1978 until 1985.
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Membership
He was a member of the Liberal Party and served as Prime Minister of Denmark from 1973 to 1975 in the Cabinet of Poul Hartling.
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Married Doctor (medical) Elsebeth Hartling (nee Kirkemann) in 1940.
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Political Party
Venstre