Ole Krarup Explained

Honorific-Prefix:Dr
Ole Krarup
Honorific-Suffix:MEP
Party:People's Movement against the EU
Office:Member of the European Parliament
Term Start:1994
Term End:2007
Constituency:Denmark
Birth Date:17 March 1935
Birth Place:Aarhus
Nationality:Danish
Alma Mater:University of Copenhagen
Profession:Professor, law
Website:www.olekrarup.dk

Ole Krarup (17 March 1935  - 7 October 2017) was a Danish EU politician and former professor of law at the University of Copenhagen.

Political career

From 1994 through 2006 he was Member of the European Parliament with the Folkebevægelsen mod EU (People's Movement against the EU), Member of the Bureau of the European United Left - Nordic Green Left and sat onthe European Parliament's Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs and its Committee on Budgetary Control. Krarup was a substitute for the Committee on Constitutional Affairs and a member of theDelegation for relations with South Africa.

Krarup resigned as an MEP on 1 January 2007 due to medical consequences after a traffic accident while riding his bicycle in Strasbourg in 2006. He was succeeded by MEP Søren Bo Søndergaard.

Death

Krarup died on 7 October 2017 at the age of 82.[1]

Notes and References

  1. https://www.b.dk/navne/ole-krarup-er-doed Ole Krarup er død