Arne Melchior

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Arne Melchior (born October 22, 1924) son of Marcus Melchior is a retired Danish politician of Jewish descent and supporter of Jewish causes.

Melchior was active in the Social Democratic Party but left this party in 1973 to co-found the Centre Democrats.

He was member of Danish Parliament during 1973-75 and again 1977-2001. He was minister of traffic in the Conservative Poul Schlüter coalition government from 1982-86, and Minister for Communication and Tourism in the Social Democratic Poul Nyrup Rasmussen coalition government from 1993-94.

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 chose to leave the Centre Democratic Parliamentary group – and the way he was treated by party leaders led to the complete collapse of the Party's vote at the parliamentary election of 2001 from which the Party has not recovered.

[edit] Others

1975-79, Melchior headed the Danish Zionist Federation.

[edit] External links

• Danish Zionist Federation

Political offices
Preceded by Jens Kristian Hansen	Traffic Minister of Denmark 10 September 1982 – 14 August 1986	Succeeded by Frode Nør Christensen
Preceded by Office created	Minister for Communication and Tourism of Denmark 25 January 1993 – 28 January 1994	Succeeded by Helge Mortensen