Isaäc Dignus Fransen van de Putte

Isaac Fransen van de Putte

Isaäc Dignus Fransen van de Putte (born March 22, 1822 in Goes , † March 3, 1902 in The Hague ) was a liberal Dutch statesman. In 1866 he was chairman of the Council of Ministers.

Life

At the age of 13, Fransen van der Putte became a cadet at the Naval School in Medemblik , but was expelled from school after a while. Between 1838 and 1848 he was an ordinary seaman, later a helmsman on merchant ships and then went to the Dutch East Indies , where he made a significant fortune in the sugar industry.

On his return in 1861 he was first a member of the Second Chamber of the States General , then Colonial Minister in Thorbecke's second cabinet (1862–1866). After arguments with the latter over colonial policy, he himself became chairman of the Council of Ministers in 1866, but Thorbecke quickly brought down his cabinet. 1872–1874 he took over the post of Minister of the Navy in the government of Gerrit de Vries . During his tenure, the Aceh War broke out.

Fransen van de Putte has been the pioneer of free-thinking colonial policy since his parliamentary appearance, and it is mainly due to his energy that the system introduced by Count van den Bosch was broken. In 1879 he became a member of the First Chamber of the States General. He died on March 3, 1902. His grave is in the Dutch cemetery Oud Eik en Duinen .

His speeches held as a minister in the Second Chamber appeared under the title “Parlementaire redevoeringen” (Schiedam 1872–1873, 2 volumes).

literature

• Paul Consten: ID Fransen van de Putte [1822–1902]. Het leven van een self-made politicus . Van Tilt, Nijmegen 2019, ISBN 978-94-6004-466-3 .

predecessor	Office	successor
Johan Rudolf Thorbecke	Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Netherlands 1866	Julius van Zuylen van Nijevelt