Dorte Marianne Bennedsen (2 July 1938 – 17 March 2016) was a Danish theologian and politician of the Social Democrats.
Bennedsen was Holmen Church's auxiliary pastor from 1965 to 1968 and was chair of the Danish Association for Nordic Collaboration between 1984 and 1999.
Her father called her Dorte and was educated at Emdrupborg School and then attended the Metropolitanskolen,[3] where she passed the classical language student examination.
[3] Bennedsen joined the Social Democrats in 1964,[3] and she served as general secretary of the Danish Youth Council from 1968 to 1971, becoming the first woman to hold the position.
[3] In the same period, Bennedsen was a member of the Social Democrats' management committee for the 2nd constituency, Frederiksberg.
[1] She was married to the Statens Serum Institut physician Jorgen Bennedsen from 29 September 1961 and the couple had three children.