Orla Møller

Orla Møller
Minister of Justice
In office 13 February 1975 – 1 October 1977
Prime Minister	Anker Jørgensen
Preceded by	Nathalie Lind
Succeeded by	Erling Johannes Jensen
Minister of Defence
In office 13 February 1975 – 1 October 1977
Prime Minister	Anker Jørgensen
Preceded by	Erling Brøndum
Succeeded by	Poul Søgaard
In office 27 September 1973 – 19 December 1973
Prime Minister	Anker Jørgensen
Preceded by	Kjeld Olesen
Succeeded by	Erling Brøndum
Minister for Ecclesiastical Affairs
In office 28 November 1966 – 2 February 1968
Prime Minister	Jens Otto Krag
Preceded by	Bodil Koch
Succeeded by	Arne Fog Pedersen
Member of the Folketing
In office 5 April 1964 – 1 October 1977
Constituency	Ålborg (1964–1971) Nordjylland (1971–1977)
Personal details
Born	Orla Reinhardt Møller[1] 7 May 1916 Feldballe, Mols, Denmark
Died	14 February 1979(1979-02-14) (aged 62)
Political party	Social Democrats
Profession	Priest

Orla Reinhardt Møller (7 May 1916 – 14 February 1979) was a Danish priest and politician who served in different cabinet posts in the 1960s and 1970s. He was a member of the Social Democrats and of the Parliament between 1964 and 1977.

Early life

Møller was born in Feldballe, Mols, on 7 May 1916.[2][3] He was educated as a priest.[4] In 1951 he became general secretary of the Christian Association for Young Men and Women.[4]

Career

From 1956 and 1965 Møller worked as a parish priest in Hasseris, North Jutland.[4] In 1964 he was elected to the Parliament for the Social Democrats and served there until 1977.[4][5] He was the minister of ecclesiastes affairs in Prime Minister Jens Otto Krag's second cabinet between 28 November 1966 and 2 February 1968.[3][4] From 1971 to 1973 he was the political spokesman and chairman of the Social Democrats' parliamentary group.[4]

On 27 September 1973 he was named as the minister of justice to the first cabinet of Anker Jørgensen.[4] He was in office until 19 December 1973.[3] On 13 February 1975 Møller was appointed the minister of defense and justice in the second cabinet of Anker Jørgensen.[3][6] On 1 October 1977 Møller resigned from the office due to the media reports about his private life.[2][3] In January 1978 he began to work as the director of NATO's Information Office in Brussels.[4]

Personal life and death

Møller married twice. He first married in 1940.[2] After divorcing his first wife on 7 January 1978 he married Winnie Lorentzen who would become a member of the Parliament.[2] He died on 14 February 1979.[2]

References

1. "Orla Møller". gravsted.dk (in Danish). Retrieved 3 January 2023.
2. Vagn Dybdahl (13 May 2014). "Orla Møller" (in Danish). Dansk Biografisk Leksikon. Retrieved 19 July 2022.
3. "Orla Møller (S)". Folketinget. Retrieved 19 July 2022.
4. "Orla Møller, 1916-1979" (in Danish). Danmarks Historien. Retrieved 19 July 2022.
5. Niels Kærgård (2015). "The Entanglement between Religion and Politics in Denmark". In Michael Böss (ed.). Bringing Culture Back In: Cultural Diversity, Religion, and the State. Aarhus: Aarhus University Press. p. 268. ISBN 978-87-7184-120-6.
6. "Danish Prime Minister Shuffles 3-Month-Old Minority Government". The New York Times. Copenhagen. Reuters. 2 October 1977. Retrieved 19 July 2022.