Tøger Seidenfaden
| Tøger Seidenfaden link (Editor, journalist, publisher) | |
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| Born | 28 April 1957 |
| Died | 27 January 2011 |
Cause of death | cancer |
| Nationality | Danish |
| Alma mater | Institut d’études politiques de Paris,Aarhus Universitet,Yale University |
10 time Bilderberger Danish editor. Bilderberg Steering committee | |
Tøger Seidenfaden was editor-in-chief of Weekendavisen between 1987 and 1992 and managing director of TV 2 from 1992 to 1993, and, most prominent, as editor-in chief of Politiken from 1993-2011.
Family Background
Tøger Seidenfaden comes from a family of Danish bourgeoisie prominently linked to the intellectual, cultural and political life of the capital Copenhagen. His father, Erik Seidenfaden, was editor-in-chief at the Danish newspaper Dagbladet Information for almost twenty years (1946-65). During WW2, Erik was active in the Danish resistance a British SOE agent with rank of officer, having close ties to SOE leader Ronald Turnbull. After the war, Erik's campaign for Denmark joining NATO in 1949 had a crucial impact.[1]
Career
From 1984 to 1985, straight out of university, Tøger Seidenfaden was employed by the government's security committee. In 1985 he was hired as foreign editor, and from 1987 to 1992 as editor-in-chief at Weekendavisen. In 1989, Seidenfaden published, despite strong resistance, extracts from Salman Rushdie's Satanic Verses in Weekendavisen.
As editor-in-chief of Politiken from 1993 to 2011, Tøger Seidenfaden was known as a prominent and at times controversial editor-in-chief who stuck to his opinions.[2]
He was a staunch critic of the Soviet Union. As editor-in-chief at Weekendavisen, he was for Danish participation in the first Gulf War in 1991. 12 years later, in Politiken, he was against Denmark's participation in the 2003 war.
Connections
Like his father, he was a member of The International Institute for Strategic Studies in London, the Executive Committee of the Danish European Movement, and the so-called VL groups, a network of corporate and public sector executives, the closest to a Danish version of Bilderberg.[3]
Seidenfaden was a long-time Bilderberger and Bilderberg Steering committee member[4], member of the Trilateral Commission's Executive Committee (his father was also member of the Trilateral Commission).[5]