Carsten Kissmeyer
{{Short description|Danish politician}}
{{Infobox officeholder
| name =
| office = Member of the Folketing
| termstart = 2 October 2018
| termend =
| constituency = West Jutland
| order1 = Mayor of Ikast-Brande Municipality
| term_start1 = 1 January 2007
| term_end1 = 31 December 2017
| successor1 = Ib Boye Lauritsen (V)
| order2 = Mayor of Ikast Municipality
| term_start2 = 1 January 2002
| term_end2 = 31 December 2006
| predecessor2 = Kjeld Broberg Lind (V)
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1953|5|22|df=y}}
| birth_place = Roskilde, Denmark
| image = CKissmeyer.jpg
| caption = Kissmeyer
| party = Venstre
}}
Carsten Kissmeyer (born 22 May 1953, in Roskilde) is a Danish politician, who is a member of the Folketing for the Venstre political party. He entered parliament in 2018 after Esben Lunde Larsen resigned his seat.{{cite web |title=Carsten Kissmeyer |url=https://www.ft.dk/medlemmer/mf/c/carsten-kissmeyer |website=Ft.dk |access-date=1 June 2021}}
Political career
Kissmeyer was a member of the municipal council of Ikast Municipality from 1994 to 2007 where the municipality was merged with Brande and Nørre-Snede Municipality to form Ikast-Brande Municipality. Kissmeyer was also the mayor of Ikast Municipality from 2002 to 2007. He was reelected into the new municipal council, and remained as mayor from the municipality's foundation in 2007 to 2018. In 2018, he entered the regional council of the Central Denmark Region.{{cite web |title=Carsten Kissmeyer |url=http://www.danskekommuner.dk/Borgmesterfakta/Borgmestre/C/Carsten-Kissmeyer1/ |website=Danskekommuner.dk |access-date=1 June 2021}}
Kissmeyer had run for parliament in the 2015 Danish general election, but did not get elected, receiving 4,567 personal votes. He became Venstre's secondary substitute in the West Jutland constituency, after Mads Rørvig. When Esben Lunde Larsen resigned his seat on 2 October 2018, Mads Rørvig was initially going to take over the seat, being Venstre's primary substitute in the constituency. Rørvig declined, not wanting to leave his job. The position was then offered to the secondary substitute, which was Carsten Kissmeyer. Kissmeyer ran again in the 2019 election and was elected directly into parliament with 7,245 votes.{{cite web |title=Valgte kandidater og stedfortrædere, Folketingsvalg torsdag 18. juni 2015 |url=https://www.dst.dk/valg/Valg1487635/kandstat/kandstat.htm |website=Dst.dk |access-date=1 June 2021}}{{cite web |title=Valgte kandidater og stedfortrædere, Folketingsvalg onsdag 5. juni 2019 |url=https://www.dst.dk/valg/Valg1684447/kandstat/kandstat.htm |website=Dst.dk |access-date=1 June 2021}}{{cite web |last1=Nepper-Christensen |first1=Sofie |title=Tidligere V-profil: Vil ikke afløse Lunde |url=https://ekstrabladet.dk/nyheder/politik/danskpolitik/tidligere-v-profil-vil-ikke-afloese-lunde/7238956 |website=Ekstrabladet.dk |date=19 July 2018 |access-date=1 June 2021}}
References
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External links
- [https://www.ft.dk/medlemmer/mf/c/carsten-kissmeyer Biography on the website of the Danish Parliament (Folketinget)]
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