Former director-general, DR Hans Jørgen Jensen is dead. 87 years old he slept, according to Politiken on Saturday in his home in Virum.

to Ekstra Bladet confirms Hans Jørgen Jensen’s daughter, Elisabeth Wille, that she has lost her father, but in addition want the family to not talk about their loss.

Hans Jørgen Jensen is trained as a journalist and in 1964 chief of the DR’s TV-Aktualitetsafdelingen as well as for the station’s nyhedssatsning, TV Newspaper.

the Man behind the TV, the Newspaper continued to increase in degrees in the DR in the monopoly days. In 1976, he was program director for DR’s radio and tv, and in 1985 he got the highest post as the director-general.

In 1994, Hans Jørgen Jensen at the pension, and Christian S. Nissen took over as director-general.

Hans Jørgen Jensen leaves his wife, the former head of the ministry of Culture Annelise Jensen, as he has been married since 1960, three children and a number of grandchildren.