Ejnar Martin Kjær

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Ejnar Martin Kjær (1893–1947) was a Danish teacher and politician. He was born in Ullits on January 9, 1893. After earning a teaching diploma in 1915, he worked as a teacher and librarian in Brønderslev until 1935, when he was elected to the Danish Parliament, where he served until 1943. In 1945, Kjær became Minister of the Interior in Knud Kristensen’s cabinet, and he was a right-wing member. He supported new psychiatric approaches to improve the treatment of mental illness. Kjær died at a hospital in Copenhagen on June 18, 1947, while still in office, and was buried in Brønderslev. He was a member of the Venstre party. Kjær was married twice; his first wife died in 1930, and he remarried in 1931.