Benny Engelbrecht | |
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Minister for Transport | |
In office 27 June 2019 –4 February 2022 | |
Prime Minister | Mette Frederiksen |
Preceded by | Ole Birk Olesen (as Minister for Transport,Building,and Housing) |
Succeeded by | Trine Bramsen |
Minister of Taxation | |
In office 2 September 2014 –28 June 2015 | |
Prime Minister | Helle Thorning-Schmidt |
Preceded by | Morten Østergaard |
Succeeded by | Karsten Lauritzen |
Member of the Folketing | |
Assumed office 13 November 2007 | |
Constituency | South Jutland |
Personal details | |
Born | Amager,Denmark | 4 August 1970
Political party | Social Democrats |
Benny Engelbrecht (born 4 August 1970) is a Danish politician who has been a member of the Folketing for the Social Democrats since the 2007 general elections. He served as the Minister of Transport from 2019 to 2022. [1] He previously served as Minister of Taxation from 2014 to 2015.
Engelbrecht was born on Amager to Alf Sørensen and Ulla Sørensen,and is married to Charlotte Engelbrecht. [2]
Engelbrecht was first elected into the Folketing for the Social Democrats in 2007. He was reelected in the 2011 election,after which election the Social Democrats entered a coalition government with the Socialist People's Party and Social Liberal Party,with the Socialist People's Party later leaving government. When Morten Østergaard,Minister of Taxation in the Thorning-Schmidt II Cabinet,left the office to become Minister of Interior and Economy,Engelbrecht was appointed to take over as Minister of Taxation. [3]
Engelbrecht was reelected in 2015 and 2019. He was appointed Minister for Transport in the Frederiksen Cabinet from 27 June 2019. [4]
He resigned in February 2022,after failing to disclose information to the Folketing regarding a major infrastructure bill that was passed in July 2021. This led Mette Frederiksen to conduct a cabinet reshuffle in the wake of his resignation on 4 February. [5]
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