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Willem Drees

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Willem Drees, Sr. (5 July 1886 – 14 May 1988) was a Dutch statesman of the Labour Party (PvdA). [1]

78 relations: Accountant, Alderman, Amsterdam, Author, Bank teller, Benelux, Buchenwald concentration camp, Celâl Bayar, Civil service, Court reporter, De Grootste Nederlander, Democratic Socialists '70, Deputy Prime Minister of the Netherlands, Dolf Joekes, Drees–Van Schaik cabinet, Dutch general election, 1946, Dutch general election, 1948, Dutch general election, 1952, Economic reconstruction, European Coal and Steel Community, European Economic Community, Excellency, Finance, First Beel cabinet, First Drees cabinet, Frans Teulings, Frans Wijffels, Haarlem, Historian, House of Representatives (Netherlands), Jaap Burger, Johan Rudolph Thorbecke, Johan van Maarseveen, Josef van Schaik, Juliana of the Netherlands, Labour Party (Netherlands), Leader of the Labour Party (Netherlands), List of Esperanto speakers, List of Presidents of Turkey, List of Prime Ministers of the Netherlands by age, Louis Beel, Medal of Freedom, Member of parliament, Minister of State (Netherlands), Ministry of Finance (Netherlands), Ministry of General Affairs, Ministry of Social Affairs, Ministry of Social Affairs and Employment, Ministry of the Interior and Kingdom Relations, NATO, ..., Netherlands, New Left, NU.nl, OECD, Order of the Netherlands Lion, Parliamentary leader, Piet Lieftinck, Politician, Prime Minister of the Netherlands, Schermerhorn–Drees cabinet, Second Drees cabinet, Shorthand, Social Democratic Workers' Party (Netherlands), South Holland, States General of the Netherlands, Teetotalism, Teun Struycken, The Hague, Third Drees cabinet, Turkey, Universal Esperanto Association, VPRO, Welfare state, Wilhelmina of the Netherlands, Willem Drees Jr., Willem Schermerhorn, World Esperanto Congress, World War II. Expand index (28 more) »

Accountant

An accountant is a practitioner of accounting or accountancy, which is the measurement, disclosure or provision of assurance about financial information that helps managers, investors, tax authorities and others make decisions about allocating resource(s).

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Alderman

An alderman is a member of a municipal assembly or council in many jurisdictions founded upon English law.

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Amsterdam

Amsterdam is the capital and most populous municipality of the Netherlands.

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Author

An author is the creator or originator of any written work such as a book or play, and is thus also a writer.

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Bank teller

A bank teller (often abbreviated to simply teller) is an employee of a bank who deals directly with customers.

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Benelux

The Benelux Union (Benelux Unie; Union Benelux) is a politico-economic union of three neighbouring states in western Europe: Belgium, the Netherlands, and Luxembourg.

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Buchenwald concentration camp

Buchenwald concentration camp (German: Konzentrationslager (KZ) Buchenwald,; literally, in English: beech forest) was a German Nazi concentration camp established on Ettersberg hill near Weimar, Germany, in July 1937, one of the first and the largest of the concentration camps on German soil, following Dachau's opening just over four years earlier.

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Celâl Bayar

Mahmut Celâl Bayar (16 May 1883 – 22 August 1986) was a Turkish politician who was the third President of Turkey from 1950 to 1960; previously he was Prime Minister of Turkey from 1937 to 1939.

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Civil service

The civil service is independent of government and composed mainly of career bureaucrats hired on professional merit rather than appointed or elected, whose institutional tenure typically survives transitions of political leadership.

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Court reporter

A court reporter or court stenographer, also called stenotype operator, shorthand reporter, or law reporter, is a person whose occupation is to transcribe spoken or recorded speech into written form, using shorthand, machine shorthand or voice writing equipment to produce official transcripts of court hearings, depositions and other official proceedings.

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De Grootste Nederlander

De Grootste Nederlander ('The Greatest Dutchman') was a public poll held in 2004 by the broadcasting company KRO of the ''Publieke Omroep''.

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Democratic Socialists '70

The Democratic Socialists '70 (Democratisch Socialisten '70, DS'70) was a social democratic political party in the Netherlands.

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Deputy Prime Minister of the Netherlands

The Vice Minister-President of the Netherlands (Viceminister-president van Nederland), commonly referred to in English as the Deputy Prime Minister, is the official deputy of the head of government of the Netherlands.

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Dolf Joekes

Adolf Marcus "Dolf" Joekes (5 May 1884, Buo (Tanah Datar, Dutch East Indies) – 1 April 1962, The Hague) was a Dutch politician.

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Drees–Van Schaik cabinet

The Drees–Van Schaik cabinet, also called the First Drees cabinet was the cabinet of the Netherlands from 7 August 1948 until 15 March 1951.

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Dutch general election, 1946

General elections were held in the Netherlands on 17 May 1946,Dieter Nohlen & Philip Stöver (2010) Elections in Europe: A data handbook, p1396 the first after World War II.

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Dutch general election, 1948

General elections were held in the Netherlands on 7 July 1948.

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Dutch general election, 1952

General elections were held in the Netherlands on 25 June 1952.

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Economic reconstruction

Economic reconstruction refers to a process for creating a proactive vision of economic change.

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European Coal and Steel Community

The European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC) was an organisation of 6 European countries set up after World War II to regulate their industrial production under a centralised authority.

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European Economic Community

The European Economic Community (EEC) was a regional organisation which aimed to bring about economic integration among its member states.

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Excellency

Excellency is an honorific style given to certain high-level officers of a sovereign state, officials of an international organization, or members of an aristocracy.

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Finance

Finance is a field that is concerned with the allocation (investment) of assets and liabilities (known as elements of the balance statement) over space and time, often under conditions of risk or uncertainty.

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First Beel cabinet

The First Beel cabinet was the cabinet of the Netherlands from 3 July 1946 until 7 August 1948/ The cabinet was formed by the political parties Catholic People's Party (KVP) and the Labour Party (PvdA) after the election of 1946.

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First Drees cabinet

The First Drees cabinet, also called the Second Drees cabinet was the cabinet of the Netherlands from 15 March 1951 until 2 September 1952.

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Frans Teulings

Frans Teulings (15 November 1891 in 's-Hertogenbosch – 23 June 1966 in Vught) was a Dutch politician for the Catholic People's Party.

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Frans Wijffels

Franciscus Cornelis Marie (Frans) Wijffels (10 April 1899, Stratum – 22 March 1968, Delft) was a Dutch politician of the Roman Catholic State Party (RKSP) and its successor the Catholic People's Party (KVP).

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Haarlem

Haarlem (predecessor of Harlem in the English language) is a city and municipality in the Netherlands.

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Historian

A historian is a person who studies and writes about the past, and is regarded as an authority on it.

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House of Representatives (Netherlands)

The House of Representatives (pronounced; commonly referred to as the, literally Second Chamber) is the lower house of the bicameral parliament of the Netherlands, the States General, the other one being the Senate.

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Jaap Burger

Jacobus Albertus Wilhelmus (Jaap) Burger (20 August 1904, Willemstad, North Brabant – 19 August 1986, Wassenaar) was a Dutch politician.

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Johan Rudolph Thorbecke

Johan Rudolph Thorbecke (14 January 1798 – 4 June 1872) was a Dutch statesman of a liberal bent, one of the most important Dutch politicians of the 19th century.

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Johan van Maarseveen

Johannes Henricus van Maarseveen (3 August 1894, Utrecht – 18 November 1951, Utrecht) was a Dutch politician.

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Josef van Schaik

Josephus Robertus Hendricus "Josef" van Schaik (31 January 1882, in Breda – 23 March 1962, in The Hague) was a Dutch politician.

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Juliana of the Netherlands

Juliana (Juliana Louise Emma Marie Wilhelmina; 30 April 1909 – 20 March 2004) was Queen of the Netherlands from 1948 until her abdication in 1980.

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Labour Party (Netherlands)

The Labour Party (Partij van de Arbeid,, abbreviated as PvdA, or P van de A) is a social-democratic political party in the Netherlands.

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Leader of the Labour Party (Netherlands)

The Leader of the Labour Party is the most senior politician within the Labour Party (Partij van de Arbeid, PvdA) in the Netherlands.

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List of Esperanto speakers

An Esperantist (Esperantisto) is a person who speaks Esperanto.

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List of Presidents of Turkey

The following is a complete list of Presidents of Turkey, consisting of the twelve heads of state and one Executive President of Turkey since the inception of the republican period in 1923, following the Turkish War of Independence.

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List of Prime Ministers of the Netherlands by age

This is a list of Prime Ministers of the Netherlands by longevity, age at ascension and age at leaving office.

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Louis Beel

Louis Joseph Maria Beel (12 April 1902 – 11 February 1977) was a Dutch politician of the defunct Catholic People's Party (KVP) now merged into the Christian Democratic Appeal (CDA).

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Medal of Freedom

The Medal of Freedom was a decoration established by President Harry S. Truman to honor civilians whose actions aided in the war efforts of the United States and its allies.

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Member of parliament

A member of parliament (MP) is the representative of the voters to a parliament.

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Minister of State (Netherlands)

The Minister of State (Minister van Staat) is an honorary title in the Netherlands.

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Ministry of Finance (Netherlands)

The Ministry of Finance (Ministerie van Financiën; FIN) is the Dutch Ministry responsible for Economic policy, Monetary policy, Fiscal policy, Tax policy, Incomes policy, Regulations, Government budget and the Financial market.

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Ministry of General Affairs

The Ministry of General Affairs (Ministerie van Algemene Zaken; AZ) is the Dutch Ministry responsible for Government policy, Planning, Information and the Dutch royal house.

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Ministry of Social Affairs

A Ministry of Social Affairs or Department of Social Affairs is the common name for a government department found in states where the government is divided into ministries or departments.

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Ministry of Social Affairs and Employment

The Ministry of Social Affairs and Employment (Ministerie van Sociale Zaken en Werkgelegenheid; SZW) is the Dutch Ministry responsible for Social Affairs, Employment, relations between Employers and Employees, Social security, Trade unions and Emancipation.

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Ministry of the Interior and Kingdom Relations

The Ministry of the Interior and Kingdom Relations (Ministerie van Binnenlandse Zaken en Koninkrijksrelaties; BZK) is the Dutch Ministry responsible for Domestic policy, Civil service, Public administration, Elections, Local governments, Intelligence and Kingdom Relations.

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NATO

The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO; Organisation du Traité de l'Atlantique Nord; OTAN), also called the North Atlantic Alliance, is an intergovernmental military alliance between 29 North American and European countries.

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Netherlands

The Netherlands (Nederland), often referred to as Holland, is a country located mostly in Western Europe with a population of seventeen million.

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New Left

The New Left was a broad political movement mainly in the 1960s and 1970s consisting of activists in the Western world who campaigned for a broad range of social issues such as civil and political rights, feminism, gay rights, abortion rights, gender roles and drug policy reforms.

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NU.nl

NU.nl is a Dutch online newspaper.

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OECD

The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD; Organisation de coopération et de développement économiques, OCDE) is an intergovernmental economic organisation with 35 member countries, founded in 1961 to stimulate economic progress and world trade.

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Order of the Netherlands Lion

The Order of the Netherlands Lion, also referred to as the Order of the Lion of the Netherlands (De Orde van de Nederlandse Leeuw, L'Ordre du Lion Néerlandais) is a Dutch order of chivalry founded by King William I of the Netherlands on 29 September 1815.

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Parliamentary leader

A parliamentary leader is a political title or a descriptive term used in various countries to the person leading a caucus (or parliamentary group) in a legislative body, whether it be a national or sub-national legislature.

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Piet Lieftinck

Pieter (Piet) Lieftinck (Muiden, September 30, 1902 – The Hague, July 9, 1989) was a Dutch civil servant, chief executive, professor and politician.

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Politician

A politician is a person active in party politics, or a person holding or seeking office in government.

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Prime Minister of the Netherlands

The Prime Minister of the Netherlands (Minister-president van Nederland) is the head of the executive branch of the Government of the Netherlands in his quality of chair of the Council of Ministers.

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Schermerhorn–Drees cabinet

The Schermerhorn–Drees cabinet was the cabinet of the Netherlands from 25 June 1945 until 3 July 1946.

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Second Drees cabinet

The Second Drees cabinet, also called the Third Drees cabinet was the cabinet of the Netherlands from 2 September 1952 until 13 October 1956.

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Shorthand

Shorthand is an abbreviated symbolic writing method that increases speed and brevity of writing as compared to longhand, a more common method of writing a language.

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Social Democratic Workers' Party (Netherlands)

The Social Democratic Workers' Party (Sociaal-Democratische Arbeiderspartij, SDAP) was a Dutch socialist political party and a predecessor of the social democratic PvdA.

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South Holland

South Holland (Zuid-Holland) is a province of the Netherlands with a population of just over 3.6 million as of 2015 and a population density of about, making it the country's most populous province and one of the world's most densely populated areas.

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States General of the Netherlands

The States General of the Netherlands (Staten-Generaal) is the bicameral legislature of the Netherlands consisting of the Senate (Eerste Kamer) and the House of Representatives (Tweede Kamer).

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Teetotalism

Teetotalism is the practice or promotion of complete personal abstinence from alcoholic beverages.

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Teun Struycken

Antoon Arnold Marie Struycken (27 December 1906 in Breda – 1 December 1977 in The Hague) was a Dutch politician and a member of the Catholic People's Party.

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The Hague

The Hague (Den Haag,, short for 's-Gravenhage) is a city on the western coast of the Netherlands and the capital of the province of South Holland.

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Third Drees cabinet

The Third Drees cabinet, also called the Fourth Drees cabinet was the cabinet of the Netherlands from 13 October 1956 until 22 December 1958.

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Turkey

Turkey (Türkiye), officially the Republic of Turkey (Türkiye Cumhuriyeti), is a transcontinental country in Eurasia, mainly in Anatolia in Western Asia, with a smaller portion on the Balkan peninsula in Southeast Europe.

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Universal Esperanto Association

The Universal Esperanto Association (Universala Esperanto-Asocio, UEA), also known as the World Esperanto Association, is the largest international organization of Esperanto speakers, with 5501 individual members in 121 countries and 9215 through national associations (in 2015) and in official relations with the United Nations.

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VPRO

The VPRO (originally an acronym for Vrijzinnig Protestantse Radio Omroep, or "Liberal Protestant Radio Broadcasting Corporation") was established in the Netherlands in 1926 as a religious broadcasting organization.

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Welfare state

The welfare state is a concept of government in which the state plays a key role in the protection and promotion of the social and economic well-being of its citizens.

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Wilhelmina of the Netherlands

Wilhelmina (Wilhelmina Helena Pauline Maria; 31 August 1880 – 28 November 1962) was Queen of the Netherlands from 1890 until her abdication in 1948.

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Willem Drees Jr.

Willem "Wim" Drees Jr. (24 December 1922 – 5 September 1998) was a Dutch politician of the Democratic Socialists '70 (DS'70).

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Willem Schermerhorn

Willem "Wim" Schermerhorn (17 December 1894 – 10 March 1977) was a Dutch politician of the Labour Party (PvdA).

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World Esperanto Congress

The World Esperanto Congress (Universala Kongreso de Esperanto, UK) is an annual Esperanto convention.

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World War II

World War II (often abbreviated to WWII or WW2), also known as the Second World War, was a global war that lasted from 1939 to 1945, although conflicts reflecting the ideological clash between what would become the Allied and Axis blocs began earlier.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willem_Drees

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