page_title: Aabenraa
section_title: Public thinking & Public Service
hierarchical_section_title: Aabenraa / Notable people / Public thinking & Public Service
caption_attribution_description: English: Eva Kjer Hansen, Danish politician Dansk: Eva Kjer Hansen, dansk politiker (Venstre)
context_page_description: Aabenraa or Åbenrå is a town in Southern Denmark, at the head of the Aabenraa Fjord, an arm of the Little Belt, 26 kilometres north of the Denmark–Germany border and 32 kilometres north of German town of Flensburg. It was the seat of Sønderjyllands Amt until 1 January 2007, when the Region of Southern Denmark was created as part of the 2007 Danish Municipal Reform. With a population of 16,425, Aabenraa is the largest town and the seat of the Aabenraa Municipality.
  The name Aabenraa originally meant "open beach".
context_section_description: Andreas du Plessis de Richelieu (1852 in Åbenrå - 1932) Danish naval officer and businessman, became a Siamese admiral and minister
  Ernst Reuter (1889 in Apenrade – 1953) the German Mayor of West Berlin from 1948 to 1953
  Frits Clausen (1893 in Åbenrå – 1947) leader of the National Socialist Workers' Party of Denmark (DNSAP)
  Camma Larsen-Ledet (1915–1991 in Åbenrå), politician, Mayor of Aabenraa 1970–1986
  Bertel Haarder (born 1944 in Rønshoved) politician, longest serving Danish minister since 2001
  Jens-Peter Bonde (born 1948 in Åbenrå) a former politician and MEP
  Poul Mathias Thomsen (born 1955 in Aabenraa) a Danish economist working for the IMF
  Eva Kjer Hansen (born 1964 in Hellevad) a Danish politician - Venstre (Denmark)
caption: Eva Kjer Hansen, 2008
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