Ernst van der Beugel

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Ernst van der Beugel (1961)

Ernst Hans van der Beugel (born February 2, 1918 in Amsterdam , † September 29, 2004 in The Hague ) was a Dutch diplomat , politician , manager and university professor .

Life

He came from a middle-class family in Amsterdam and was the son of Theodor Max van der Beugel (* 1889), who bought the "Villa Georgina" as a summer house in Zandvoort around 1920 , and Sophia van Praag (1891–1964). Beugel graduated from the University of Amsterdam with a degree in economics in 1941 , but did not earn his doctorate until 1965 at the University of Leiden . His dissertation had a foreword by Henry Kissinger .

In 1945 Beugel joined the Dutch Ministry of Transport and in 1946 moved to the Ministry of Economic Affairs. In 1947 he was secretary and office manager of the Dutch delegation from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to the first Marshall Plan conference in Paris . In 1952 he was executive director for the OEEC economic and military aid program . In 1957 and 1958 he worked for the Social Democratic Labor Party as State Secretary for European Integration and Deputy Foreign Minister in the Foreign Ministry of the fourth cabinet of Prime Minister Willem Drees , where he played a key role in the establishment and development of the European Economic Community (EEC). The German diplomat Berndt von Staden writes in his memoirs about Beugel: "... the dramatis personae are no longer present to me, apart from the very articulate Dutch State Secretary Ernst van der Beugel, who spoke with the authority of a great power." 1959 he was ambassador and special advisor in the State Department. After the death of Józef Retinger , Beugel was Secretary General of the Bilderberg Conference from 1960 to 1980 .

From 1960 to 1961 he was Vice President, then until 1963 President of the national airline KLM , then Director of several companies in the Netherlands, Belgium , Great Britain and the USA and from 1966 to 1984 Professor of International Relations at the University of Leiden .

His sister was the journalist and author Ina van der Beugel (1914–2003).

Awards

Works (selection)

  • Ernst Hans van der Beugel: 65 years, 1918 February 2, 1983 . Brill, Leiden 1983
  • Albertine Bloemendal: Reframing the Diplomat. Ernst van der Beugel and the Cold War Atlantic Community . Leiden, Brill, 2018. ISBN 9789004359178 ( dissertation )

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Family tree
  2. ^ Ernst Hans van der Beugel: From Marshall plan to Atlantic Partnership. European integration as a concern of American foreign policy . Elsevier, Amsterdam / London / New York 1966.
  3. ^ Hanns Jürgen Küsters: The establishment of the European Economic Community . Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft, Baden-Baden 1982, ISBN 3-7890-0795-1 ( limited preview in the Google book search)
  4. ↑ Berndt von Staden: End and Beginning. Memories 1939-1963. IPA, Vaihingen / Enz 2001, ISBN 3-933486-28-9
  5. ^ Adolf M. Birke, Kurt Kluxen , Manfred Hanisch: The European Challenge: England and Germany in Europe . KG Saur, 1987, ISBN 3-598-21405-7 , p. 142 ( limited preview in Google book search)
  6. ↑ Michael Gehler, Wolfram Kaiser, Brigitte Leucht: Networks in the European multi-level system. From 1945 to the present , page 70, Böhlau, Vienna 2009, ISBN 978-3-205-77745-8 ( limited preview in the Google book search)
  7. ↑ International Who's Who , 1983-84, Volume 47. Europa Publications, 1983, ISBN 0-905118-86-3 , p. 122 ( limited preview in Google Book Search)
personal data
SURNAME Beugel, Ernst van der
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Beugel, Ernst Hans van der
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Dutch diplomat, politician and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH February 2, 1918
PLACE OF BIRTH Amsterdam
DATE OF DEATH September 29, 2004
Place of death The hague