Ole Krarup

Danish politician and professor

Dr Ole Krarup MEP


Member of the European Parliament
In office 1994–2007
Constituency	Denmark

Personal details
Born	(1935-03-17)17 March 1935 Aarhus
Died	7 October 2017(2017-10-07) (aged 82)
Nationality	Danish
Political party	People's Movement against the EU
Alma mater	University of Copenhagen
Profession	Professor, law
Website	www.olekrarup.dk

Ole Krarup (17 March 1935 – 7 October 2017) was a Danish EU politician and former professor of law at the University of Copenhagen.

Political career

From 1994 through 2006 he was Member of the European Parliament with the Folkebevægelsen mod EU (People's Movement against the EU), Member of the Bureau of the European United Left - Nordic Green Left and sat on the European Parliament's Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs and its Committee on Budgetary Control. Krarup was a substitute for the Committee on Constitutional Affairs and a member of the Delegation for relations with South Africa.

Krarup resigned as an MEP on 1 January 2007 due to medical consequences after a traffic accident while riding his bicycle in Strasbourg in 2006. He was succeeded by MEP Søren Bo Søndergaard.