Svend Haugaard
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Svend Haugaard (Apr 13, 1913 – Mar 3, 2003), was a Danish politician, member of Folketinget for the Social Liberal Party 1964-1979. Agronomist. Headmaster of an agricultural high school. Was part of a leftist oppositional party faction during the party leadership of Hilmar Baunsgaard. Followed the latter as party leader but achieved a poor election result in February 1977. Haugaard had a life-long personal and organizational commitment to pacifism. In translation his memoirs from 1989 are called No words without deeds.
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| Preceded by Bernhard Baunsgaard |
Parliamentary group leader of the Danish Social Liberal Party 1970 – 1971 |
Succeeded by Hilmar Baunsgaard |
| Preceded by Hilmar Baunsgaard |
Parliamentary group leader of the Danish Social Liberal Party 1975 – 1978 |
Succeeded by Niels Helveg Petersen |
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- [http://http://www.fredsakademiet.dk/ordbog/hord/h11.htm Biographical notes from the Danish Peace Academy and a picture from the cover of Haugaard's memoirs (Danish)
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