Emiel van Lennep

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Emiel van Lennep (1979)

Jonkheer Emiel (Émile) van Lennep (born January 20, 1915 in Amsterdam , † October 2, 1996 in The Hague ) was a Dutch civil servant and minister of state .

biography

Degree and top official of the Ministry of Finance

His father Jonkheer Dr. Louis Henri van Lennep was not only active as a businessman in the trading and banking company Van Eeghen & Co. in Amsterdam, but also chamberlain in Queen Wilhelmina's foreign trade service .

After attending high school , he studied law at the University of Amsterdam from 1932 to October 1937 . After completing his studies cum laude , he was initially a lawyer before he became an authorized signatory at the foreign exchange institute in 1940 . Subsequently, in 1945 he received power of attorney at the Dutch central bank De Nederlandsche Bank .

In 1948 he became a civil servant in the finance department of Batavia (Jakarta) in the Dutch East Indies . In 1949 he was briefly financial advisor to the High Representative of the Dutch Crown in Indonesia . Between 1949 and 1950 he was head of the finance department at the High Commission of the Netherlands in Indonesia.

In 1950 he returned to the Netherlands and was again authorized officer at the Dutch Central Bank.

In 1951 van Lennep took over as treasurer (Thesaurier-Generaal) a top position in the Ministry of Finance (Ministerie van Financiën), which he held until September 30, 1969. In this function he was also a member of the Board of Governors of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and temporarily chairman of the Monetary Committee of the European Economic Community (EEC) . At the same time, he was one of the most important advisers to the finance ministers during these eighteen years and even after leaving this post he still had his own office in the finance ministry. Willem Drees Jr., the son of long-time Prime Minister Willem Drees of the same name, was succeeded as treasurer of the Treasury .

In September 1963 he refused an appointment as State Secretary for Transport and Water Management, as did the appointment as Minister of Finance in the cabinet of Prime Minister Piet de Jong in 1967 .

Secretary General of the OECD

After his appointment as Secretary General of the OECD , he officially took up this position on September 30, 1969, succeeding Thorkil Kristensen . Right at the beginning of his tenure in November 1970, he reprimanded the conservative British Prime Minister Edward Heath . Because inflation in Great Britain is "one of the most serious inflation problems of all 22 OECD countries", according to the OECD report he presented. During his tenure in 1975 there was also another financial crisis due to the increase in OPEC's foreign exchange surpluses . In 1976, as a visiting professor , he held lectures on "Basic Problems of the World Economic Order" at Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz .

He held the office of Secretary General of the OECD for fifteen years until he was replaced by Jean-Claude Paye on October 1, 1984, after the Favorit had previously renounced this office as the successor to Federal Finance and Economics Minister Manfred Lahnstein and instead became a member of the Bertelsmann Executive Board .

In April 1985 he was temporarily special envoy of the government for negotiations with Venezuela over the oil refinery of the Royal Dutch Shell in Curaçao and with Argentina over the COGASCP pipeline .

For his services, he was awarded the honorary title of Minister of State (Minister van Staat) for life on April 29, 1986 .

As such, he was a member of the Advisory Council for European Economic and Monetary Integration from August 1991 until his death.

In April 1954 he was appointed Commander of the Order of Orange-Nassau for his services and in August 1984 Commander of the Order of the Dutch Lion . In addition, he was also made a legal knight of the Order of St. John in 1984 .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ England / Inflation: wages in suitcases . In: Der Spiegel . No. 49 , 1970, pp. 164 ( Online - Nov. 30, 1970 ).
  2. ↑ Inflation / OECD Report: Completely helpless . In: Der Spiegel . No. 49 , 1970, pp. 146-147 ( Online - Nov. 30, 1970 ).
  3. ↑ Petrocollar: Dramatic turn . In: Der Spiegel . No. 26 , 1975, p. 98-103 ( Online - June 23, 1975 ).
  4. ↑ Professional: Hermann Höcherl . In: Der Spiegel . No. 5 , 1976, p. 132 ( Online - Jan. 26, 1976 ).
  5. ↑ Better to Gütersloh . In: Der Spiegel . No. 29 , 1983, pp. 15 ( online - 18 July 1983 ).
personal data
SURNAME Lennep, Emiel van
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lennep, Émile van
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Dutch civil servant
DATE OF BIRTH January 20, 1915
PLACE OF BIRTH Amsterdam
DATE OF DEATH October 2, 1996
Place of death The hague