Magnus Heunicke

Magnus Heunicke
Heunicke in 2019
Minister for the Environment
Incumbent
Assumed office
15 December 2022
Prime MinisterMette Frederiksen
Preceded byLea Wermelin
Minister for Health
In office
27 June 2019 – 15 December 2022
Prime MinisterMette Frederiksen
Preceded byEllen Trane Nørby
Succeeded bySophie Løhde (Interior and Health)
Minister of Elderly Affairs
In office
27 June 2019 – 21 January 2021
Prime MinisterMette Frederiksen
Preceded byThyra Frank
Succeeded byAstrid Krag
Minister for Transport
In office
3 February 2014 – 28 June 2015
Prime MinisterHelle Thorning-Schmidt
Preceded byPia Olsen Dyhr
Succeeded byHans Christian Schmidt
Member of the Folketing
Incumbent
Assumed office
8 February 2005
ConstituencyZealand (from 2007)
Storstrøm (2005-2007)
Personal details
Born (1975-01-28) 28 January 1975 (age 49)
Næstved, Denmark
Political partySocial Democrats
SpouseNina Groes

Magnus Johannes Heunicke (born 28 January 1975) is a Danish journalist and politician who serves as a member of the Folketing for the Social Democrats political party. He was the Minister of Health from 2019 to 2022, and minister of elderly affairs from 2019 to 2021.[1]

Background

He was born in Næstved to former mayor Henning Jensen and school teacher Inger Heunicke, and is married to Nina Groes.

Heunicke has an education as a journalist, graduating from Aarhus journalist high school in 2002 and later working for DR in the period 2001-2005. Heunicke left the field of journalism in 2005 to pursue a parliamentary career. Before starting his education as a journalist, Heunicke graduated from Næstved gymnasium in Næstved, in 1995.[2]

Political career

Heunicke was first elected member of Folketinget for the Social Democrats in the 2005 Danish general election, and reelected in 2007 and 2011. In 2014 he was appointed Minister for Transport, after Pia Olsen Dyhr. He was reelected again in 2015 and 2019.[3]

Minister of Health (2019-2022)

Heunicke was appointed Minister for Health and Elderly Affairs in the Frederiksen Cabinet from 27 June 2019.

Together with Frederiksen cabinet, he led the Danish government's response to the contain the spread of COVID-19 pandemic. In December 2020, COVID-19 vaccines reached the country and began to the administrated. From January 2021, he was only Minister of Health.[1][4] In the summer of 2021, he also led the government’s response to a strike among more than 6,000 nurses over pay.[5]

Minister of the Environment (2022–)

Heunicke was appointed minister of the environment on 15 December 2022 in Mette Fredriksens second cabinet.[6]

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References

  1. ^ a b "Mette Frederiksen holder flyttedag på ministerholdet". DR. January 21, 2021.
  2. ^ "CV of Magnus Heunicke". thedanishparliament.dk.
  3. ^ "Magnus Heunicke sagde farvel til Transportministeriet". TV2 ØST.
  4. ^ Deleuran Müller, Thea (27 June 2019). "Danmarks nye regering er nu på plads: Se hele Mette Frederiksens ministerhold her". dr.dk (in Danish). Retrieved 2 July 2019.
  5. ^ Stine Jacobsen (27 August 2021), Danish government intervenes to end nurses strike Reuters.
  6. ^ Bohr, Jakob Kjøgx (2022-12-15). "Her er SVM-regeringens ministre - TV 2". TV 2 (in Danish). Retrieved 2022-12-15.
Political offices
Preceded by Minister of Transport
2014–2015 		Succeeded by
Preceded by Minister for Elderly Affairs
2019–2021 		Succeeded by
Preceded by Minister of Health
2019–2022 		Succeeded by
Preceded by Minister of the Environment
2022– 		Incumbent


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