Année Rinzes de Jong

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Année Rinzes de Jong (born March 7, 1883 in Zutphen , † January 27, 1970 in Haarlem ) was a Dutch author, editor, pastor , anti-militarist , active in the peace movement and Christian anarchist .

Life

Année Rinzes de Jong came from a moderate Orthodox family. He studied theology in Utrecht from 1904 to 1909 . From 1909 he worked with Truus Kruyt-Hogerzeil, J. Bommeljé and Bart de Ligt for the magazine Wereldvrede ("Weltfriede").

During this time he undertook religious missionary work ("zendingswerk") in Rotterdam and Utrecht . Through this initiative he got to know the "bad social circumstances that he encountered in his missionary work, as well as the inhumane effect of capitalism " (Herman Noordegraaf. IISG). He became a member of the Bond van Christen-Socialisten (about: "Bund der Christian Sozialisten", later Bond van Anarcho-Socialisten ; BCS). Between 1909 and 1915 de Jong was active as a pastor in various cities.

During World War I he took part in various anti-militarist actions. In 1916 he was sentenced to four weeks in prison for signing the Conscientious Objection Manifesto ("Manifesto for Conscientious Objection "). The anarchists Lodewijk van Mierop and Bart de Ligt also received prison sentences for this. De Jong ran in 1917 at the "Tweede Kamerverkiezingen" . Within the BCS there was a dispute between the “Christian” and the “socialist” side, with de Jong joining the “socialist” side. The anarchists of the socialist faction of the BCS joined in 1920 together with the Vrije Menschen Verbond ("Union of Free People") the Bond van Religieuse Anarcho-Communists ("Union of Religious Anarcho-Communists"; BRAC), to which Felix Ortt also belonged. Clara Gertrud Wichmann was one of the founders of the BRAC. The Vrije Menschen Verbond was founded in 1915 by Lodewijk van Mierop, Felix Ortt and Jacob van Rees , among others . De Jong became chairman and editor of the BRAC magazine De Vrije Communist ("The Free Communist"), for which Christiaan Cornelissen and Lodewijk van Mierop also worked as editors. In 1919 de Jong resigned from the church and began in 1923 with monthly religious lectures ("religieuse toespraken"), which he held for more than 30 years. Since he missed the “religious element” (“religieuse element”) in the Bond van Anarcho-Socialisten (“Bund der Anarcho-Sozialisten”; BvAS), the successor to the BRAC, of ​​which he was also a member, he resigned from the BvAS 1935 and founded the Onafhankelijke Religieuse Gemeenschap (“Independent Religious Community”), which campaigned for a renewal of religious life. In 1928 Année Rinzes de Jong became the new chairman of the International Broederschap after his predecessor Jacob van Rees had died.

Active in the peace movement, de Jong also became chairman of the Dutch section Rassemblement International contre la Guerre et le Militarisme (1937), which had been initiated by Bart de Ligt. Until he was very old, de Jong gave lectures on religious subjects.

Année Rinzes de Jong was editor of the Dutch magazines Wereldvrede (1909), Opwaarts (1913 to 1918), De Vrije Communist (1920 to 1925) and Bevrijding .

He also published under the pseudonym K. Eykman .

AR de Jong was married to Kato Ibeltje Eekman († January 7, 1934). In 1942 he married Elize Harmeijer. He was the father of a son.

Publications (selection)

  • Protest against de verbanning van Ds. B. de Ligt . Amsterdam 1915
  • De beteekenis van de religie in the revolutionairen strijd . Rotterdam 1924
  • Lodewijk van Mierop . In: Bevrijding , 1929–1930, p. 30
  • Ruimt de stenen away! Amsterdam 1955
  • Henriette Roland Holst firm jaar . In: Bevrijding , 1929–1930, p. 142
  • Christ still tans. Utrecht 1937
  • Further publications by AR de Jong on Google Books

literature

  • H. Ariëns, L. Berentsen, F. Hermans: Religieus-Anarchisme in Nederland tussen 1918 en 1940 (Zwolle 1984)
  • H. Noordegraaf: AR de Jong. Portret van een religieus-anarchist . In De As magazine , July – September 1991. pp. 17-23
  • G. Jochheim: Antimilitarist theory of action, social revolution and social defense (Assen 1977). Pp. 237 to 240
  • H. Noordegraaf: Revolutionair predikant en religieus bezieler. AR de Jong (1883-1970). Gorinchem 1998.
  • Bart de Ligt: Vrede as daad. Volume I (Arnhem 1931) p. 298, Volume II (Arnhem 1933). Pp. 160-161

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Author: Tiny de Boer . Nationaal AR de Jong. In the IISG . Dutch, accessed March 31, 2013
  2. ↑ Encyclopedie, Protestant . Quote: "[Bart] De Ligt vormde een hechte kring met studievriend Année Rinzes de Jong en het real couple John William Kruyt en Truus Hogerzeil met like hij in 1909 what toegetreden dead het christelijk-sociale tijdschrift Wereldvrede" . Dutch, accessed March 31, 2013
  3. ↑ See: Martje Elings in the magazine Vredesopvoeding , No. 3, December 2000. Quotation: “Nadat van Rees in 1928 overleden was werd dominee Annee Rinzes de Jong as zijn opvolger voorzitter van de Internationale Broederschap en tevens het bestuur van de school. " P. 12
  4. ↑ Author: Herman Noordegraaf. Biography: JONG, Année Rinzes de . In: Biographical Woordenboek van het Socialisme en de Arbeidersbewegung in Nederland (BWSA). First published in BWSA 5, 1992. pp. 138-140. Unless otherwise stated, essential information is taken from this biography. Dutch, accessed March 31, 2013
  5. ↑ www.historici.nl . Among other things, about de Jong as an editor. Dutch, accessed March 31, 2013

See also

Anarchism in the Netherlands

personal data
SURNAME Jong, Année Rinzes de
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Eykman, K. (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Dutch author and anarchist
DATE OF BIRTH March 7, 1883
PLACE OF BIRTH Zutphen
DATE OF DEATH January 27, 1970
Place of death Haarlem