Aase Olesen

Aase Olesen (; 24 September 1934 – 1 February 2013) was a Danish politician for the Danish Social Liberal Party and teacher. She worked as a teacher at Hørsholm Municipal School before joining the Danish Social Liberal Party in 1967. Olesen was elected to the Folketing from October 1974 to December 1990 and was appointed Minister of Social Affairs in the government of Poul Schlüter between June 1988 and December 1990. She was chair of a social committee established by Schlüter in 1991 and whose recommendations were implemented into Danish social policy law in 1993. From 1984 to 1988, she was a member of the Nordic Council.

Early life Olesen was born on 24 September 1934 in Horsens. She was the daughter of the lithographers Eigill Larsen and Erna Larsen and had one younger brother. Olesen was brought up in a house where her father was a left-wing trade unionist and her mother did homemaking. From 1942 to 1946, she was educated at Østre Skole in Horsens. Olesen passed the examination to become a teacher at Skolen ved Sundet in Copenhagen in 1952, and became a housewife until 1970. She began working as the co-owner and employee of her husband's design studio from 1970, when she was elected to represent the Frederiksborg County for the Danish Social Liberal Party in the Folketing on 23 October 1979. From 1995 to 2008, she was chair of Kofoeds School's board. Olesen was deputy chair of the Association of Former members of parliament and a member of the board of the Red Cross' Odd Fellow Order's Children's Fund. She was also chair of the Arbejdsmarkedets Feriefond that she stood down from in 2008. She was a co-signator of a 2007 open letter asking the party's parliamentary group to support a referendum on the Treaty of Lisbon.

Personal life Olesen married the architect Tormod Olesen on 7 April 1954, with whom she had two children. On 1 February 2013, she died at the Sankt Lukas Foundation's hospice in Hellerup.