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Morten Messerschmidt was born on 13 November, 1980 in Frederikssund, Denmark, is a Danish politician. Discover Morten Messerschmidt's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 43 years old?

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Age 43 years old
Zodiac Sign Scorpio
Born 13 November 1980
Birthday 13 November
Birthplace Frederikssund, Denmark
Nationality Denmark

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1980

Morten Messerschmidt (born 13 November 1980) is a Danish politician and since 2022 leader of the Danish People's Party.

Morten Messerschmidt was born on 13 November 1980 in Frederikssund as the son of worker Carsten Christoffersen and municipal secretary Inge Messerschmidt.

1999

He graduated from Sankt Annæ Gymnasium in 1999 and became a cand.jur (Master of Laws) from the University of Copenhagen in 2009.

He served as a church singer in Islebjerg Church from 1999 to 2005.

2000

Messerschmidt was a member of the national committee of the Danish People's Party Youth 2000–2005.

2001

He was political deputy chairman of the youth party 2001–2005.

2002

In 2002, he founded the association Kritiske Licensbetalere, of which he was also chairman.

Messerschmidt was convicted in 2002, receiving a suspended sentence of prison for 14 days for violating the Danish hate speech law by publishing material that attempted to link Islamic societies to rape, violence and forced marriages.

2003

In 2003, Messerschmidt participated in the TV program Big Brother V.I.P. with i.a. Carl-Mar Møller, Helena Blach Lavrsen and Lise Lotte Lohmann.

Between 2003 and 2005 he was assistant to the Danish People's Party's European parliamentarian Mogens Camre

2005

Before taking his seat in the European Parliament, Messerschmidt was a member of the Danish Parliament, the Folketing from 8 February 2005, having won his seat with 3,812 personal votes, and being re-elected in 2007, this time getting 11,466 votes.

2007

The latter later introduced him to Bakkens Hvile singer Dot Wessman, with whom he became girlfriend and cohabitant with in 2007.

For a short period of time in 2007, Messerschmidt left the Danish People's Party due to accusations of showing Nazi sympathies, as he according to the tabloid newspaper B.T. had praised Adolf Hitler in Tivoli.

2008

Together in 2008, they released and jointly performed on the Christmas album Jul i Europa (Christmas in Europe).

2009

In 2009, Messerschmidt won a lawsuit against the former editor-in-chief of B.T. Arne Ullum and journalist Jacob Heinel Jensen which both were punished with 10 daily fines of 500 kr. each and had to pay compensation of 25,000 kr.

for defamation.

The court accepted Messerschmidt's explanation that his use of the Nazi salute "Heil" and singing of Deutschland, Deutschland über alles was not an attempt to praise Hitler, but made as a joke.

At the 2009 European Parliament election, Messerschmidt was elected to the European Parliament, winning his seat with 284,500 personal votes, the highest number of personal votes among all the Danish candidates in the election.

Messerschmidt has been associated with the counter-jihad movement, and has been described as a proponent of the ideology associated with the blog Gates of Vienna for which he gave an interview at a 2009 conference in Washington, D.C. He has in counterjihad-associated interviews "blamed left-wing parties and governments for capitulating to the Muslim ‘invasion’," and stated that the European Union would be overrun by a civil war with Muslims in 20 years.

2014

At the 2014 European Parliament election, he was elected a Member of the European Parliament for Denmark with 465,758; the highest number of personal votes ever cast at a Danish election.

At the 2014 European Parliament election, he received 465,758 personal votes, the highest number of personal votes ever received in any European Parliament election in Denmark.

Afterwards he was the group leader of his party in the European Parliament from 2014 until his resignation in August 2016.

2015

On 9 June 2015, Messerschmidt announced that they had separated later announcing their reunion on 1 July 2016.

OLAF launched an investigation into the case, and Messerschmidt was reported to the police for identity theft by MEP Rikke Karlsson, who had left the DPP in 2015 in protest against Messerschmidt's alleged withholding of information about the foundations.

Karlsson and then-fellow DPP MEP Jørn Dohrmann had been elected to the board of MELD without their knowledge.

2016

In August 2016, Messerschmidt resigned as EU parliament group leader for the DPP after allegations of fraud concerning misuse of EU funds related to the foundations FELD and MELD that Messerschmidt had managed.

2017

Ekstra Bladet was nominated for a European Press Prize for investigative reporting in 2017 for their coverage of the scandal.

In 2021, he was charged with misuse of 98.000 DKK in EU funds.

On August 13, 2021, he was sentenced to 6 months of conditional prison, but The High Court of Eastern Denmark annulled the verdict in December 2021 due to the Independent Police Complaints Authority of Denmark finding the judge to have a conflict of interest.

On 21 December 2022 Messerschmidt was acquitted of all charges by the Court of Frederiksberg.

2019

He was an elected Member of the Folketing at the 2019 Danish general election having previously served from 2005 to 2009.

In November 2019, Messerschmidt's sister, Line Messerschmidt, was murdered in a double homicide by Martin Christensen Degn; after which in 2021 Morten became the legal guardian of her children.

In 2019, Messerschmidt was elected to the Folketing with 7,554 personal votes, and in 2020 became vice chairman of the DF, replacing Søren Espersen.