Claus Hjort Frederiksen

Claus Hjort Frederiksen
Minister of Defence
In office 28 November 2016 – 27 June 2019
Prime Minister	Lars Løkke Rasmussen
Preceded by	Peter Christensen
Succeeded by	Trine Bramsen
Minister of Finance
In office 28 June 2015 – 28 November 2016
Prime Minister	Lars Løkke Rasmussen
Preceded by	Bjarne Corydon
Succeeded by	Kristian Jensen
In office 7 April 2009 – 3 October 2011
Prime Minister	Lars Løkke Rasmussen
Preceded by	Lars Løkke Rasmussen
Succeeded by	Bjarne Corydon
Minister for Employment
In office 27 November 2001 – 7 April 2009
Prime Minister	Anders Fogh Rasmussen
Preceded by	Ove Hygum
Succeeded by	Inger Støjberg
Member of the Folketing
In office 8 February 2005 – 1 November 2022
Constituency	North Zealand (2007–2022) Copenhagen (2005–2007)
Personal details
Born	(1947-09-04) 4 September 1947 (age 76) Copenhagen, Denmark
Political party	Venstre
Alma mater	University of Copenhagen
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Claus Hjort Frederiksen (born 4 September 1947) is a Danish politician of the Venstre party, who served as the Danish Minister for Defence from 2016 to 2019, and as Minister for Finance from 2015 to 2016, having previously served in that position from 2009 to 2011, as member of the first Løkke Rasmussen Cabinet. From 2001 to 2009, he was Minister of Employment in the first, second, and third cabinets of Anders Fogh Rasmussen.

He is a member of the liberal party Venstre. He was a member of the Danish Parliament Folketinget since 2005^[1] until 2022. Hjort was one of the main strategist behind the strategy shift in Venstre following the defeat in the 1998 general election known as the so-called Hjort doctrine (Danish: Hjort-doktrinen).^[2][3][4]