Mette Madsen

Mette Madsen
Member of the Folketing for the North Jutland constituency
In office
21 September 1971 – 1 February 1988
Minister for Ecclesiastical Affairs
In office
23 July 1984 – 3 June 1988
MonarchMargrethe II
Prime MinisterPoul Schlüter
Preceded byElsebeth Kock-Petersen
Succeeded byTorben Rechendorff
Personal details
Born
Mette Marie Freunsgaard

(1924-07-03)3 July 1924
Pandrup, North Jutland Region, Jetsmark Parish, Denmark
Died12 December 2015(2015-12-12) (aged 91)
Aalborg, Denmark
Political partyVenstre
Spouse
Gunnar Otto Madsen
(m. 1942)
Children3
OccupationAuthor

Mette Marie Madsen (née Freunsgaard; 3 July 1924 – 12 December 2015) was a Danish politician for the Venstre political party, autobiographer and writer. She was the minister representing the North Jutland constituency in the Folketing between 1971 and 1988 and she was the Minister for Ecclesiastical Affairs from 1984 to 1988 during the premiership of Poul Schlüter. Madsen was a member of the NATO Parliamentary Assembly, the first female chair of the Assembly's Committee on Culture, Education and Information and both the chair of the supervisory committee of both the Danish Arts Foundation and the Royal Danish Theatre. She was appointed Commander of the Order of the Dannebrog and received other foreign awards.