Tove Lindbo Larsen

Tove Kirsten Lindbo Larsen (25 December 1928 – 29 September 2018) was a Danish Social Democrats politician who served as Minister for Ecclesiastical Affairs and Minister for Greenland from early 1981 to late 1982 in the government of Anker Jørgensen. She also served a total of 22 years as a member of the Folketing for firstly the and then the constituencies between most years from 1971 to 1998.

Early life

Larsen was born in Copenhagen on 25 December 1928. She was the daughter of the director Angelo Karlsen and Laurine Nielsen. In 1945, Larsen passed her high school diploma and went on to work as an office assistant from 1945 to 1949. She changed her degree to become a seminary-trained household and nutrition teacher in 1951.

Career

Between 1951 and 1953, Larsen worked at Mariaforbundet's household school as a teacher. She became a member of the Social Democrats political party in 1953. From 1955 to 1958, Larsen worked as a consultant in the Frederiksberg Municipality, where she worked in collaboration with Ellis Tardini. She went on to work as dietican at Rigshospitalet's pediatric ward between 1958 and 1961 and developed a specific dietican's work space. Larsen educated pupils on dietetics and nursing at some educational institutions such as Zahles Seminary from 1958 to 1971 and at Copenhagen Vocational School for Nursing Staff between 1967 and 1971. She was also a teacher at nursing schools in Frederiksberg Municipality and Copenhagen County from 1961 to 1971.

Larsen served as chair of the Social Democratic Women in Frederiksberg between 1956 and 1963 and was a board member of the social democratic voters 'association Frederiksberg Slotskredsen in the same period of time. She went to be appointed a member of the executive committee of the Social Democratic Women in Copenhagen, working in the role from 1966 to 1969. From 1964 to 1971, Larsen was a board member of the voters' association København Valbykredsen. She was chair of the Pensioners' Cooperative in Copenhagen from 1969 to 1975 and was a member of the Danish Food Council between 1972 and 1981 and again in 1987. She worked for Brugsforeningen HB as a board member between 1969 and 1972, was on FBD's board from 1972 to 1981 before serving as its deputy chair in the last three years she was there.

Larsen was vice-chair of the Pensioners' Cooperative in Denmark from 1966 to 1978 (again from 1994) and was its chair between 1978 and 1981, where she lobbied for improved conditions for pensioners and sought the possibility of obtaining healthier food. She was president of the Home Teachers Association between 1973 and 1979. There, she had the objective of modernising the trade union and was able to get the Civil Servants 'Central Organization, the Teachers' Central Organization and the Joint Council of Danish Civil Servants, the Civil Servants' Organizations and the unemployment fund organised into a composite group. Larsen was representative of the (AOF) in the from 1967 to 1981. She also performed the same role in the Danish Consumer Council from 1983 to 1995. Larsen was deputy chair of the Board of Bikuben Invest from 1984 to 1995, and between 1986 and 1993, was a member of the Port of Copenhagen's board. She was from 1990 to 1993 on the YMCA's Seminary Board of Representatives.

She unsuccessfully stood for election to represent the constituency at the 1970 Danish local elections. During the 1971 Danish general election

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