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Steffen Bernhardt Jensen was a Danish journalist, author, politician and Mayor of Aarhus from 1958 to 1971 for the Social Democratic Party. He was politically active from an early age and later worked as a journalist for several local left-leaning newspapers. During his tenure as mayor, he became known for his opposition to car traffic and he stopped several infrastructure projects that would have required large-scale demolitions of the historic inner city.
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- ↑ "Borgmester i Aarhus". Aarhus City Archives. Retrieved 6 August 2015.
- ↑ "Borgmestre gennem tiden". Aarhus Municipality . Retrieved 10 January 2017.
