Søren Krarup

Søren Krarup (3 December 1937 – 8 November 2023) was a Danish pastor, writer and politician who served as a member of the Danish Parliament from 2001 to 2011 for the Danish People's Party.

Krarup was a significant and influential critic from the Danish national conservative movement, as well as the theological movement Tidehverv. He wrote several books about Christianity, history and politics, and was regarded by both his supporters and many of his opponents as a great intellectual capacity. He was regarded as the main ideologue of the Danish People's Party, although he rejected the particular term himself, as he considered "love for the fatherland" not to be an ideology or "-ism", but rather a fundamental precondition for one's life. He was a noted critic of Cultural Radicalism (a Danish cultural relativist movement), Marxism and official Danish social policy, EU policy and immigration and refugee policy.

Krarup was, like a number of other prominent Danish politicians from the Danish People's Party, a member of Den Danske Forening, but along with party members Jesper Langballe and Søren Espersen resigned from the association in 2002 after it had publicly compared Islam with the plague. In 2007, while he was still not a member of the association, he however stated in a speech at its jubilee that he had continued to hold its magazine "with great pleasure", and said he regarded the association as "the freedom fighters of our time".