Frans Drion

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FJW Drion, 1913

Frans Drion , real name: Franciscus Johannes Wilhelmus Drion (born September 12, 1874 in The Hague ; † December 13, 1948 there ), was a Dutch author, editor , accountant, politician , teacher of economics and government , insurance advisor and anarchist . He also published under the pseudonyms "A" and "Akrates".

Life

Frans Drion was one of the first anarchists in The Hague in his youth. On April 1, 1890 he worked as a typist at the cooperative bread baker ("Coöperatieve Broodbakkerij"), where Bartholomeus van Ommeren also worked, and in 1896 as an accountant in the food department ("Afdeling kruidenierswaren"). Around 1893 he wrote for the magazine De Anarchist , among others for the Ruprik Sociaal Overzicht . Drion was co-editor there, which he remained until 1894. As a member of the Socialistenbond (1895) he hoped that the "Bund der Sozialisten" should develop in an anarchist direction. Drion belonged to the "communist" side, as opposed to the "individualistic" direction of the organization. From October 1896 to January 1897 he was editor of the magazine De Anarchist . After 1898 Drion became an insurance advisor in Arnhem.

In Friesland , at the time when the anarchist Ferdinand Domela Nieuwenhuis was active in Appelscha and Friesland, he went on propaganda trips and gave lectures. Drion campaigned for the cooperation of anarchists from different currents . In 1906 he joined the Bond van Vrije Liberals ("League of Free Liberals") and got the position as "Algemeen Secretaris" (General Secretary). His affiliation with the “free liberals” was a logical decision, since the Dutch liberals of that time acted against the omnipotence of the state and the clergy . Drion published in the liberal journals Onze Eeuw (1908-1913), De Fakkel ("The Torch"), where he was editor-in-chief, and in the National Civic Gids (1918-1921). For the constituency of Ridderkerk he was elected to the Second Chamber of the States General (Tweede Kamer der Staten-Generaal) and for the Vrijheidsbond ("Bund für Freiheit") he was from 1920 to 1922 a member of the Second Chamber.

In addition, Drion was director of the Nationaal Bureau voor Documentatie over Nederland (about: "National Bureau for Documentation on the Netherlands") and chief editor of the magazine La Gazette de Hollande (1923-1935). During the Second World War he worked as the main editor of the illegal magazine De Toekomst (“The Future”) in The Hague (from 1943 to 1945) and as the author of the magazine De Geus onder studenten . His two sons, Jan Drion (1915–1964), professor at the Rijksuniversiteit Leiden and Huib Drion (1917–2004), legal scholar , published the illegal student magazine De Geus (title in the sense of: “The rebel”, “The insubordinate "Or" The Insurgent ") with a print run of around 5000 copies. It was a resistance magazine against National Socialism in the Netherlands.

In Comité van Waakzaamheid (literally "Committee for Wachsamheit") was Frans Drion Member. This committee was directed against fascism in Germany. For him, “politically left” meant more security for freedom, in contrast to “politically right” ; he also counted the liberals among the “political left”. Drion became a member of the Sociaal-Democratische Arbeiderspartij (SDAP; predecessor of the PvdA) in 1945 and in 1946 of the Partij van de Arbeid (PvdA).

Frans Drion was married twice and had six children. He received the Oranje-Nassau Officer Award .

Fonts

  • Report on Het Belgische Stelsel van Ouderdomsverzorging (1911)
  • Het nieuwe kiesstelsel (Zutphen 1917)
  • De Vrij-Liberale Partij (1918)
  • Waarom ik op 26 mei as op de SDAP-lijst stem . In the magazine: Het Volk , May 5, 1937
  • Further publications , in: Digitale Bibliotheek voor de Nederlandse Letteren (dbnl).

literature

  • JM Welcker: Akrates-Drion . In: “Mededelingenblad”, May 1967, pp. 4-18.
  • PJ Oud: Het jongste verleden. Parlementaire divorced from Nederland I. Assen 1968
  • J. Hemels: Van perschef tot overheidsvoorlichter. Alphen aan den Rijn 1973

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Author: Johanna M. Welcker . Portrait: FJW Drion, 1913. In: Onze afgevaardigden (Rotterdam 1913). P. 166. First published in Biografisch Woordenboek van het Socialisme en de Arbeidersbewing in Nederland (BWSA 1, 1986. pp. 32 to 34). Last change on May 22, 2002. In the IISG (Amsterdam). Dutch, accessed September 1, 2012
  2. ↑ Brief information on Google Books. P. 576
  3. ↑ Parliamentary Documentation Center . Dutch, accessed September 1, 2012
  4. ^ Author: K. Wiersma . Drion, Jan (1915-1964). At “historici.nl.” Originally published in Biografisch Woordenboek van Nederland . February 10, 2012. Dutch, accessed September 1, 2012
  5. ↑ Information on Frans Drion
personal data
SURNAME Drion, Frans
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Drion, Franciscus Johannes Wilhelmus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Dutch author and anarchist
DATE OF BIRTH September 2, 1874
PLACE OF BIRTH The hague
DATE OF DEATH December 13, 1948
Place of death The hague