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Personal data Barend Willem Biesheuvel 

  • He was born on April 5, 1920 in Haarlemmerliede.
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    Biesheuvel was een Nederlandse politicusenminister-president van de kabinetten Biesheuvel IenBiesheuvel II.

    Na het behalen van het mulo-diploma bezocht degereformeerdeBiesheuvel het Christelijk Lyceum te Haarlem.Hij behaaldeer het diploma gymnasium-A, waarna hij rechtenging studerenaan de Vrije Universiteit te Amsterdam. Hijslaagde voor hetdoctoraal examen rechtsgeleerdheid inseptember 1945. Van1945 tot 1947 was hij secretaris van deProvincialeVoedselcommissaris van Noord-Holland teAlkmaar. In 1947werd hij secretaris van de afdelingbuitenland van deStichting voor de Landbouw, de voorlopervan hetLandbouwschap. Biesheuvel werd in 1952 algemeensecretarisvan de Nederlandse Christelijke Boeren enTuindersbond(CBTB) en in 1959 voorzitter. Vanaf 1959 washij ook lid vanhet bestuur van het Landbouwschap, van deStichting van deArbeid, van de Centrale Raiffeisenbank envan de Heidemij.

    Van 1956 tot 1963 was hij voor de Anti-RevolutionairePartij(ARP) lid van de Tweede Kamer der Staten-Generaal.Van 1957tot 1961 was hij lid van de RaadgevendeVergadering van deRaad van Europa en van 1961 tot 1963 lidvan het EuropeesParlement. In de Kabinetten van VictorMarijnen, Cals enZijlstra was hij van 24 juli 1963 tot 5april 1967viceminister-president, belast met debehartiging vanKoninkrijksaangelegenheden, en minister vanLandbouw enVisserij.

    Vanaf 1967 was hij opnieuw lid van de Tweede KamerderStaten-Generaal en voorzitter van de ARP-fractie. Hijwasin deze periode ook voorzitter van het College vandeScheepsbouw en voorzitter van de commissieHeroriëntatieoverheidsvoorlichting.

    Van 6 juli 1971 tot 11 mei 1973 wasBiesheuvelminister-president en minister van Algemene Zakenvan tweekabinetten die zijn naam droegen. Hetkabinet-Biesheuvel Istruikelde in juli 1972 over debegroting 1973. Na hetvertrek van de DS'70-ministers uithet kabinet, die eenzuiniger beleid wilden, maakteBiesheuvel een doorstart meteen minderheidskabinet datBiesheuvel II genoemd werd; erwerden vervroegdeverkiezingen uitgeschreven voor 1973.Biesheuvel II hieldhet tot die verkiezingen vol.

    Biesheuvel heeft na zijn politieke loopbaan nogvelefuncties bij de overheid en het bedrijfsleven vervuld.Zowas hij onder andere voorzitter van de RaadvanCommissarissen van de Nationale Investeringsbank, lidvande Raad van Commissarissen van OGEM en de KLM,voorzittervan de Koninkrijkswerkgroep voor de NederlandseAntillen,voorzitter van de Staatscommissie van adviesinzake derelatie kiezers-beleidsvorming, voorzitter vandeVoorlopige Raad voor Verkeer en Waterstaat envoorzittervan de Interdepartementale CoördinatiecommissievoorNoordzeeaangelegenheden ICONA.

    Barend Biesheuvel overleed op 81-jarige leeftijd enwerdbegraven op de Algemene Begraafplaats aan de BergweginBloemendaal.
  • He died on April 29, 2001 in Haarlem, he was 81 years old.
  • A child of Arie Biesheuvel and Johanna Margaretha Troost
  • This information was last updated on June 16, 2012.

Household of Barend Willem Biesheuvel

He is married to Wilhelmina Jacoba Meuring.

They got married on November 22, 1945, he was 25 years old.

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Ancestors (and descendant) of Barend Willem Biesheuvel

Arie Biesheuvel
1855-1934
Maartje Doekes
1853-1922

Barend Willem Biesheuvel
1920-2001

1945

Wilhelmina Jacoba Meuring
± 1919-1989


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    Birthday April 5, 1920

    • The temperature on April 5, 1920 was between 2.0 °C and 11.6 °C and averaged 7.0 °C. There was 3.0 hours of sunshine (23%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-northwest. Source: KNMI
    • Koningin Wilhelmina (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1948 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
    • In The Netherlands , there was from September 9, 1918 to September 18, 1922 the cabinet Ruys de Beerenbrouck I, with Jonkheer mr. Ch.J.M. Ruys de Beerenbrouck (RKSP) as prime minister.
    • In the year 1920: Source: Wikipedia
      • The Netherlands had about 6.8 million citizens.
      • January 8 » The steel strike of 1919 ends in failure for the Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel and Tin Workers labor union.
      • March 22 » Azeri and Turkish army soldiers with participation of Kurdish gangs attacked the Armenian inhabitants of Shushi (Nagorno Karabakh).
      • April 23 » The Grand National Assembly of Turkey (TBMM) is founded in Ankara. The assembly denounces the government of Sultan Mehmed VI and announces the preparation of a temporary constitution.
      • June 15 » Following the 1920 Schleswig plebiscites, Northern Schleswig is transferred from Germany to Denmark.
      • July 15 » The Polish Parliament establishes Silesian Voivodeship before the Polish-German plebiscite.
      • December 3 » Following more than a month of Turkish–Armenian War, the Turkish dictated Treaty of Alexandropol is concluded.

    Day of marriage November 22, 1945

    • The temperature on November 22, 1945 was between -0.9 °C and 4.6 °C and averaged 1.9 °C. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east. Source: KNMI
    • Koningin Wilhelmina (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1948 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
    • In The Netherlands , there was from July 27, 1941 to February 23, 1945 the cabinet Gerbrandy II, with Prof. dr. P.S. Gerbrandy (ARP) as prime minister.
    • In The Netherlands , there was from February 23, 1945 to June 24, 1945 the cabinet Gerbrandy III, with Prof. dr. P.S. Gerbrandy (ARP) as prime minister.
    • From June 24, 1945 till July 3, 1946 the Netherlands had a cabinet Schermerhorn - Drees with the prime ministers Prof. ir. W. Schermerhorn (VDB) and W. Drees (PvdA).
    • In the year 1945: Source: Wikipedia
      • The Netherlands had about 9.2 million citizens.
      • January 9 » World War II: The Sixth United States Army begins the invasion of Lingayen Gulf.
      • March 9 » World War II: A coup d'état by Japanese forces in French Indochina removes the French from power.
      • May 8 » Hundreds of Algerian civilians are killed by French Army soldiers in the Sétif massacre.
      • June 28 » Poland's Soviet-allied Provisional Government of National Unity is formed over a month after V-E Day.
      • June 29 » The Soviet Union annexes the Czechoslovak province of Carpathian Ruthenia.
      • November 29 » The Federal People's Republic of Yugoslavia is declared.

    Day of death April 29, 2001

    • The temperature on April 29, 2001 was between 6.0 °C and 17.3 °C and averaged 12.6 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 7.5 hours of sunshine (51%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south. Source: KNMI
    • Koningin Beatrix (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from April 30, 1980 till April 30, 2013 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
    • In The Netherlands , there was from Monday, August 3, 1998 to Monday, July 22, 2002 the cabinet Kok II, with W. Kok (PvdA) as prime minister.
    • In the year 2001: Source: Wikipedia
      • The Netherlands had about 16.0 million citizens.
      • January 16 » Congolese President Laurent-Désiré Kabila is assassinated by one of his own bodyguards.
      • March 16 » A series of bomb blasts that took place in the city of Shijiazhuang, China killed 108 people and injured 38 others, was the biggest mass murder in China in decades.
      • April 1 » Former President of Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Slobodan Milošević surrenders to police special forces, to be tried on war crimes charges.
      • May 27 » Members of the Islamist separatist group Abu Sayyaf seize twenty hostages from an affluent island resort on Palawan in the Philippines; the hostage crisis would not be resolved until June 2002.
      • October 17 » Israeli tourism minister Rehavam Ze'evi becomes the first Israeli minister to be assassinated in a terrorist attack.
      • December 22 » Burhanuddin Rabbani, political leader of the Northern Alliance, hands over power in Afghanistan to the interim government headed by President Hamid Karzai.

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