Søren Krarup
{{Short description|Danish pastor and politician (1937–2023)}}
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{{Infobox officeholder
| name = Søren Krarup
| image =
| order = Member of the Folketing
| term_start = 20 November 2001
| term_end = 15 September 2011
| birth_date = {{birth date|1937|12|3|df=yes}}
| birth_place = Grenaa, Denmark
| death_date = {{death date and age|2023|11|8|1937|12|3|df=yes}}
| death_place = Copenhagen, Denmark
| party = Danish People's Party|
| caption = Krarup in 2016
| children = Agnete • Marie • Inger • Katrine
| spouse = Anette Elisabeth Krarup (m. 1962)
}}
Søren Krarup (3 December 1937 – 8 November 2023) was a Danish pastor, writer and politician who served as a member of the Danish Parliament from 2001 to 2011 for the Danish People's Party.
Krarup was a significant and influential critic from the Danish national conservative movement, as well as the theological movement Tidehverv. He wrote several books about Christianity, history and politics, and was regarded by both his supporters and many of his opponents as a great intellectual capacity.{{cite book|url=http://www.humanisme.dk/hoejre/kapitel1.php|first=Rune Engelbreth|last=Larsen|title=Det nye højre i Danmark|chapter=1|year=2001}} He was regarded as the main ideologue of the Danish People's Party,{{cite news|url=http://www.berlingske.dk/kultur/sejrherren|work=Berlingske Tidende|title=Sejrherren|first=Mads|last=Kastrup|date=12 November 2006}} although he rejected the particular term himself, as he considered "love for the fatherland" not to be an ideology or "-ism", but rather a fundamental precondition for one's life.{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-aV1ZO-Jve8C|title=Integration: antropologiske perspektiver|first=Karsten|last=Pærregaard|publisher=Museum Tusculanum Press|year=2007|isbn=9788763507387|page=114}} He was a noted critic of Cultural Radicalism (a Danish cultural relativist movement), Marxism and official Danish social policy, EU policy and immigration and refugee policy.{{cite web|url=http://www.denstoredanske.dk/Samfund,_jura_og_politik/Religion_og_mystik/Danske_folkekirke/S%C3%B8ren_Krarup|work=Den store danske|title=Søren Krarup|accessdate=14 July 2010}}
Krarup was, like a number of other prominent Danish politicians from the Danish People's Party, a member of Den Danske Forening, but along with party members Jesper Langballe and Søren Espersen resigned from the association in 2002 after it had publicly compared Islam with the plague.{{cite news|url=http://avisen.dk/krarup-ddf-er-vor-tids-frihedskaempere_75275.aspx|work=Avisen.dk|title=Krarup: DDF er vor tids frihedskæmpere|first=Thomas|last=Hoffmann|date=19 March 2007}} In 2007, while he was still not a member of the association, he however stated in a speech at its jubilee that he had continued to hold its magazine "with great pleasure", and said he regarded the association as "the freedom fighters of our time".
Political controversies
Krarup created a minor stir in December 2007 by announcing that he would like to see Scania, Halland and Blekinge reunited with Denmark, if they expressed such a desire through a referendum.[http://www.thelocal.se/9490/20071223/ "Danish politician stakes claim to Swedish territory"]. The Local, 23 December 2007.[http://avisen.dk/krarup-droemmer-om-dansk-storrige_217.aspx Krarup drømmer om dansk storrige (Krarup dreams of a Greater Denmark)] He also expressed the view that all members of the Danish minority in Schleswig ought to carry the hope that at some future time Denmark's border should be extended to the Eider river, restoring Danish rule over Southern Schleswig which is now part of Germany.[http://www.tvsyd.dk/artikel/19819:Soeren-Krarup--Danmark-til-Ejderen-boer-vaere-haabet "Søren Krarup: Danmark til Ejderen bør være håbet" (Søren Krarup: Denmark to the Eider is to be hoped for)]
Krarup stated that he considered gay people to be "handicapped" people suffering from an "abominable disease", who should be subject to "compulsory registration".{{Cite web|url=http://www.avisen.dk/krarup-kalder-boesser-for-handikappede_72193.aspx|title = Krarup kalder bøsser for handikappede}}{{Cite web|url=https://piopio.dk/dfs-mest-vanvittige-angreb-pa-homoseksuelle/|title = DF's mest vanvittige angreb på homoseksuelle|date = 4 February 2013}} Following the 2017 French presidential election, Krarup caused a minor controversy by referring to President-elect Emmanuel Macron as a "pretty little gayboy".{{cite web| url = https://www.thelocal.dk/20170509/danish-former-mp-makes-homophobic-remark-about-french-president-elect-macron| url-status = dead| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20170509141031/https://www.thelocal.dk/20170509/danish-former-mp-makes-homophobic-remark-about-french-president-elect-macron| archive-date = 2017-05-09| title = Danish former MP makes homophobic remark about French President-elect Macron – The Local}}{{Cite web|url=http://www.pinknews.co.uk/2017/05/09/french-president-elect-emmanuel-macron-smeared-by-mp-as-pretty-little-gay-boy/|title = French President-elect Emmanuel Macron smeared by MP as 'pretty little gay boy'|date = 9 May 2017}}
Krarup described corporal punishment of children as "not harmful".{{Cite web|url=http://www.bt.dk/nyheder/soeren-krarup-boern-tager-ikke-skade-af-at-blive-slaaet|title = Søren Krarup: Børn tager ikke skade af at blive slået|date = 6 November 2008}}
Personal life
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Krarup was born in Grenaa, to vicar Vilhelm Krarup and Bodil Marie Krarup (née Langballe).{{ft.dk link}}. Retrieved on 10 May 2018. He was married to Anette Elisabeth (née Lund Steen), with whom he had four children,{{cite web|url=http://www.danskfolkeparti.dk/S%C3%B8ren_Krarup.asp#again|work=Dansk Folkeparti|title=Søren Krarup|accessdate=14 July 2010}} one of whom, Marie, has also entered politics. He was the grandson of Alfred Krarup and cousin of Jesper Langballe and Ole Krarup.{{cite news|url=http://www.kristeligt-dagblad.dk/artikel/359654:Mennesker--Ole-Krarup---den-roede-faetter-Krarup|work=Kristeligt Dagblad|title=Ole Krarup – den røde fætter Krarup|date=16 March 2010}}
Krarup graduated from Christianshavns Gymnasium in 1957 and cand.theol. in 1965. He was vicar in Seem and resident curate at Ribe Cathedral from 1965 to 2005 and ward chairman from 1965. He was director of Studenterkredsen from 1961 to 1963. From 2000 to 2001 he represented his party on the board of DR. He was from 1965 co-publisher of Tidehverv, and editor from 1984.
In October 2000, he was listed as the Danish People's Party candidate in Sønderborg and was elected to parliament for the Sønderjylland constituency on 20 November 2001.
Krarup had an extensive writing career behind him, as he from 1960 to 2001 published 26 books. Especially through his role in Tidehverv and as MP for the Danish People's Party, he had great influence on modern Danish theology and modern Danish national conservative politics. Krarup died at his home on Amager, Copenhagen on 8 November 2023, at the age of 85,{{Cite web |date=2023-11-08 |title=Søren Krarup er død |url=https://www.kristeligt-dagblad.dk/kirke-og-tro/soeren-krarup-er-doed |access-date=2023-11-08 |website=Kristeligt Dagblad |language=da}} with his death being announced the same day.
Bibliography
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- Harald Nielsen og hans tid (1960)
- Hørups Arv og Arvtagere (1961)
- Demokratisme (1968)
- Om at ofre sig for menneskeheden og ofre menneskene (1969)
- Den hellige hensigt (1969)
- Præstens prædiken (1971)
- At være eller ikke være (1971)
- Den danske dagligdag (1973)
- Fædreland og Folkestyre (1974)
- Selvbesindelse (1976)
- Forsvar for familien 1977)
- Den politiske syge (1979)
- Verden Var (1979)
- Loven (1980)
- Fordringen (1982)
- Det moderne Sammenbrud (1984)
- Begrebet Anstændighed (1985)
- I Virkeligheden (1986)
- Det tavse flertal (1987)
- Synd tappert! (1990)
- Dansk kultur (1993)
- Den danske nødvendighed (1994)
- Den kristne tro. Katekismus for voksne (1995)
- I min levetid. 60 års Danmarkshistorie (1998)
- Dansen om menneskerettighederne (2000)
- Kristendom og danskhed (2001)
- "Kære Søren, en brevveksling om det nye Danmarks kurs" (with Søren Pind) (2003)
- Systemskiftet (2006)
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