Hilmar Baunsgaard

Hilmar Baunsgaard (born February 26, 1920, Slagelse, Denmark—died June 30, 1989) was Denmark’s leading nonsocialist politician during the 1960s and ’70s. He served as prime minister of a coalition government from 1968 until 1971. After entering the Radical Party’s youth organization in 1936, Baunsgaard rose to become its chairman in 1948. He remained in that office until 1957, and then, after a successful career in the grocery industry, he entered the Folketing (parliament). The recognized...