It all started with Steen Harding Hintze resigning from his position as sales manager at the Port of Hanstholm in 2021 after only being employed for less than a month and instead starting a job as development director at the Port of Hirtshals.
After this, he was expelled and reported to the police when the Port of Hanstholm believed that he had sent confidential strategy documents to his own private email in early 2021.
However, the police could not find evidence that Hintze had done anything criminal. Instead, Hintze received compensation of DKK 50,000 from the Port of Hanstholm in the summer of 2021. The compensation was part of a settlement with Djøf, and was compensation for unjustified expulsion, violation of data protection regulations and offensive behavior towards Hintze.
However, for the Port of Hanstholm, it also ended with the Danish Data Protection Agency issuing sharp criticism of the port, and the case was finally closed with the port in the summer of 2022. In the meantime, the port had received both a new acting director and chairman of the board.
Related to the energy area
The documents that Steen Harding Hintze sent to his private email were supposed to be about the strategies of the Port of Hanstholm, but previously it has not been made clear what they specifically concerned.
DOI.dk is now in possession of a board meeting minutes for the Port of Hanstholm, which shows that one of the documents that Steen Harding Hintze sent to his private email, was about the formation of a limited liability company for the port. It was a company form that was necessary to create an energy cluster at the port.
The minutes state, among other things:
"- one of the documents that Steen Hintze has sent to his private email is a note about Nils' [Skeby] explanation of this possible A/S constellation."
Nils Skeby was then CEO of Hanstholm Port. Later in the same minutes from spring 2022 it states:
"It is also assessed that we should speed up the development of Hanstholm Energiselskab - also in relation to the whole situation with Steen Hintze, who has sent confidential strategy material to his private email, which is now feared to be in the hands of the Port of Hirtshals."
The planned energy cluster at Hanstholm Port has never been implemented. At the same time, the port has gone from being a municipal self-governing port to being a municipal port.
Steen Harding Hintze is today CEO of the development company Greenport North, which works for the Port of Hirtshals' position within the area of green transition.
Steen Harding HIntze writes in a written comment to DOI.dk:
"The personnel case you mention was closed two years ago with a tort compensation for me and I have no further comments."
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