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Knud Vældgaard Kristensen is (born June 7, 1953 in
Farsø Farsø is a town with a population of 3,349 (1 January 2022) in Region Nordjylland in Denmark in the Vesthimmerland Municipality. Farsø was the birthplace of Johannes Vilhelm Jensen, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1944. The village of ...
) is a Danish mason and politician, and he was son of Åge Kristensen and Inge Kristensen. He a member of Danish party
Det Konservative Folkeparti The Conservative People's Party ( da, Det Konservative Folkeparti, DKF), also known as The Conservatives () is a conservative centre-right political party in Denmark. The party is a member of the European People's Party (EPP) and International ...
. He is currently retired from politics. Kristensen became a mason in 1973 and has been independent of own masonry and construction business since 1975 which he founded. It is called Hornum Murer- og Entreprenørforretning (English: Hornum masonry and contracting business). He was a councilor in
Aars Municipality Aars Municipality was formed by Kommunalreformen in 1970, which made the parishes into municipalities. Before the Municipalities of Denmark#Municipal Reform 2007, ''Kommunalreformen'' ("The Municipality Reform") of 2007, it was a municipality (Dan ...
from 1986–2006, in the period 1998-2001 as deputy mayor and from 2002–2006 as mayor. In 2006, he was elected municipal council in
Vesthimmerland Municipality Vesthimmerland Municipality or Vesthimmerlandøs Municipality is a municipality ( da, kommune) in the North Jutland Region in Denmark. It covers an area of 768,08 km² (2013) and has a total population of 38,277 inhabitants (2008). The Munici ...
, but did not become mayor. In 2006 he became Deputy Chairman of Danish Construction in the Region of
North Jutland Region The North Jutland Region ( da, Region Nordjylland), or in some official sources, the North Denmark Region, is an administrative region of Denmark established on 1 January 2007 as part of the 2007 Danish municipal reform, which abolished the tra ...
and in 2007 he became president. Knud Kristensen is his party's labor, housing, animal welfare and food rapporteur and chairman of the Parliament's Labor Market Committee. He was a mayor candidate for Conservative in the municipal elections in 2010, and was elected Mayor with the support of Venstre at the constitution. He then resigned from the parliament. He ran for mayor in the 2017 Municipality election but lost it to
Per Bach Laursen Per Bach Laursen (born 7 February 1962 in Løgstør) is from Overlade near Løgstør, he is proprietor and owner of Lundgård. He is also the current mayor of Vesthimmerlands Municipality he is from Venstre, he was preceded by Knud Vældgaard Kr ...
. The 29 January 2018 he retired from the city council and politics, because of health reasons, though he did not reject a future comeback.


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{{DEFAULTSORT:Kristensen, Knud Vaeldgaard 1953 births Living people Conservative People's Party (Denmark) politicians People from Vesthimmerland Municipality