Henning Christophersen

Henning Christophersen
Vice President of the European Commission for Economic & Financial Affairs
In office 6 January 1989 – 22 January 1995
President	Jacques Delors
Preceded by	François-Xavier Ortoli
Succeeded by	Yves-Thibault de Silguy
Vice President of the European Commission for Financial Programming & the Budget
In office 6 January 1985 – 5 January 1989
President	Jacques Delors
Preceded by	Christopher Tugendhat
Succeeded by	Peter Schmidhuber
Minister of Finance
In office 10 September 1982 – 23 July 1984
Prime Minister	Poul Schlüter
Preceded by	Knud Heinesen
Succeeded by	Palle Simonsen
Minister of Foreign Affairs
In office 30 August 1978 – 26 October 1979
Prime Minister	Anker Jørgensen
Preceded by	Anker Jørgensen
Succeeded by	Kjeld Olesen
Leader of Venstre
In office September 1978 – 23 July 1984
Preceded by	Poul Hartling
Succeeded by	Uffe Ellemann-Jensen
Member of the Folketing
In office 1971–1984
Personal details
Born	(1939-11-08)8 November 1939 Copenhagen, Denmark
Died	31 December 2016(2016-12-31) (aged 77) Brussels, Belgium
Political party	Venstre
Occupation	Politician

Henning Christophersen (8 November 1939 – 31 December 2016) was a Danish politician, who served as Vice President of the European Commission (1985–1995), leader of the Danish liberal party Venstre (1978–1984) and a member of the European Convention.^[1] Christophersen was one of the early architects of the Single Market and the Euro.