Ciro Domenico Kroon

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Ciro Domenico Kroon (born January 31, 1916 in Curaçao - 2001) is a former politician of the Netherlands Antilles of the Democratic Party (DP), who was Prime Minister of the Netherlands Antilles between 1968 and 1969 .

Life

MP and Minister

Kroon was a descendant of slaves who received partial freedom rights under the so-called slavenemancipatie in 1863. He was the youngest son and at the same time the only child from the second marriage of the carpenter and treasurer of the craftsmen's association Liga di Artesano Eduard Bernardus Kroon Beeld and his second wife Catrijn Benita Zimmerman. With the approval of the government, the family name was changed from Kroon Beeld to Kroon with effect from December 20, 1925.

At first he worked between 1942 and 1951 as a civil servant in the Ministry of Economic Affairs and, along with Efraïn Jonckheer, was one of the co-founders of the liberal - social democratic Democratische Partij (DP). For this he was elected member of parliament (Staten van de Nederlandse Antillen) in 1949 and then took over the function of deputy for social affairs and economics for Curaçao from 1951 to 1957.

Between 1957 and 1968 he was Minister for Social Affairs, Public Health and Economy (Minister van Sociale Zaken, Volksgezondheid en Economische Zaken) in the four cabinets of Prime Minister Efraïn Jonckheer and most recently also Vice Prime Minister. In this function he undertook a trip to Europe in October 1964, including among others Henri Rochereau , Commissioner for Overseas Development of the European Communities .

Prime Minister, year of the crisis 1969 and family

On February 14, 1968, Kroon succeeded Efraïn Jonckheer as Prime Minister of the Netherlands Antilles. During his tenure, on May 30, 1969, there was a bloody workers' uprising on Curaçao, the so-called Trinta di Mei . One of the main reasons for this was the reduction in the number of jobs at Royal Dutch Shell companies in the Netherlands Antilles from 11,000 in 1952 to 4,000 in 1969 and the associated rise in unemployment from 5,000 in 1961 to 8,000 in 1966. This resulted at the same time to a division of society into the Papiamentu- speaking so-called "Landskinderen", who have lived there for generations, and the so-called "Makambas", the predominantly Dutch- speaking immigrants from the motherland who immigrated to the area during the oil boom . The uprising against capitalism, colonialism and racism of May 30, 1969 was supported by the Union Reformista Antillano (URA) founded in 1965 and led by people like the trade unionist Papa Godett and the journalist Stanley Brown. Two people were killed and 69 people injured in the riot. The total damage was put at 40 million US dollars . Kroon held the office of Prime Minister until September 1969 and then handed it over to an interim government under Gerald Sprockel . In 1969 he was chairman of the DP group in parliament.

Kroon, who was also involved in the Masonic lodge Igualdad , was Minister of Economic Affairs in the government of Prime Minister Juancho Evertsz between 1973 and 1975 . He later was the founder and executive chairman of the Banco Mercantil de Venezuela . At the end of 1985 he made another political appearance when he was involved as an informant in the formation of the second government of Prime Minister Don Martina . For a while he was a member of the Raad van Advies , an advisory body to the government.

From his father's first marriage to Matilda Wilhelmina de Windt, five half-siblings emerged, including the poet, essayist and novelist Willem Elegio Kroon (1886-1949), José Maria Pedro Kroon (1893-1982), member of parliament and publisher of Papiamentu published daily newspaper La Union and the entrepreneur and honorary consul of the Dominican Republic , Eduard Caspar Kroon (1903–1968). His nephew and son of his half-sister Veronica Carmen Kroon, Hector Silvio Weber , was a judge at the Hof van Justitie and between 1969 and 1971 Vice Prime Minister and Minister for Economic Affairs and Social Affairs.

From his own marriage to Edna Sluis, also from Curaçao, two children were born.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ciro Kroon - Történelmi adatok és családfák - MyHeritage. Retrieved November 4, 2018 .
  2. ↑ Homepage of the Partido Democraat ( Memento of the original from April 22, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.democraatkorsou.com
  3. ↑ Visit of Ciro Domenico Kroon, Deputy Prime Minister of the Netherlands Antilles, to the Commission of the EEC on the homepage of the European Commission
  4. ↑ Remembering the uprising in Curacao May 30, 1969 . In: Curaçao Chronicle of May 30, 2014
personal data
SURNAME Kroon, Ciro Domenico
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Dutch politician of the Netherlands Antilles
DATE OF BIRTH January 31, 1916
PLACE OF BIRTH Curacao