Peter Hummelgaard

Peter Hummelgaard
Hummelgaard in 2025
Minister for Justice
Assumed office
15 December 2022
Prime MinisterMette Frederiksen
Preceded byMattias Tesfaye
Minister for Employment
In office
27 June 2019 – 15 December 2022
Prime MinisterMette Frederiksen
Preceded byTroels Lund Poulsen
Succeeded byAne Halsboe-Jørgensen
Member of the Folketing
Assumed office
18 June 2015
ConstituencyCopenhagen
Personal details
Born (1983-01-17) 17 January 1983
Tårnby, Denmark
PartySocial Democrats
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Peter Hummelgaard Thomsen (born 17 January 1983) is a Danish writer and politician, who is a member of the Folketing for the Social Democrats political party. He was the Minister for Employment from 2019 to 2022, and has been the Minister of Justice since 2022. He was elected into parliament in the 2015 Danish general election. He is a chief architect of the Regulation to Prevent and Combat Child Sexual Abuse (Chat Control) proposal.