Henk Kamp

Henk Kamp (2011)

Henricus Gregorius Jozeph Kamp (called Henk Kamp ; born July 23, 1952 in Hengelo , Overijssel province ) is a Dutch politician of the conservative - liberal VVD . Kamp was Minister of the Netherlands from 2002 to 2007 and from 2010 to 2017, during which time he headed four different departments, the longest being Defense and Economy.

After training as a tax auditor (1977–1980), Kamp first worked in tax investigations until 1986 , when he was elected to the parliament of the province of Gelderland in 1987 ; he was a member until 1994.

Kamp was, with an interruption from 2002 to 2006, 1994 to 2017 a member of the Tweede chamber called the House of the Dutch Parliament . On July 22, 2002, Kamp was appointed Minister for Housing, Spatial Planning and the Environment in the Balkenende I cabinet, and in December he was also appointed to head the Defense Department. From May 27, 2003, Kamp only took over the post of Minister of Defense , which he held in the Balkenende II and III cabinet until February 22, 2007. His party was not part of the government for the next three years. From October 14, 2010 to November 5, 2012, Kamp was Minister for Social Affairs and Labor in the Rutte I cabinet , then Minister of Economics in the Rutte II cabinet until October 26, 2017 . In February 2016, he announced that he would withdraw from national politics at the end of the legislative period.

Positions

Accompanied by protests by survivors of the Srebrenica massacre , the Dutch government honored around 500 soldiers of the Dutch contingent of the United Nations Protection Force , Dutchbat III, on December 4, 2006 . You would have had an "extremely difficult job" at the time; After 1995, they were "exposed to false accusations for years", but have since been exonerated by official investigations, according to the then Dutch Defense Minister Henk Kamp. Bosnia and Herzegovina protested against this honor at the diplomatic level. Relatives of massacre victims and survivors from Srebrenica spoke of a "genocide order" at protest rallies. The Society for Threatened Peoples (GfbV) took part in the demonstration in Sarajevo against the soldiers' award and demanded an apology from the survivors of Srebrenica in an open letter to Kamp and Prime Minister Jan Peter Balkenende .

In March 2007, Kamp demanded that the targeted refusal of integration be made a criminal offense and that mosques in which people called for refusal to integrate should be closed immediately.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Short biography on the website of the Royal Dutch Representations in Germany ( Memento of the original from September 26, 2007 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. (As of 2003; †) 
2. ↑ Ian Traynor: Dutch honor soldiers who stood by at Srebrenica massacre in: The guardian , December 6, 2006
3. ↑ Caroline Fetscher : Honor to whom none is due? The Hague wants to restore the reputation of the Srebrenica soldiers - and triggers protests in Bosnia. In: Der Tagesspiegel , December 6, 2006
4. ↑ Order for UN soldiers from Srebrenica. In: Der Spiegel , December 5, 2006
5. ↑ http://www.telegraaf.nl/binnenland/61036301/Kamp:_tegenwerken_integratie_strafbaar.html

Web links

Commons : Henk Kamp  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• HGJ (Henk) Kamp , Parlement & Politiek (ndl.)
• Page about Kamp at the government of the Netherlands (Dutch)

predecessor	Office	successor
Benk Korthals	Minister of Defense of the Netherlands 2002–2007	Eimert van Middelkoop