Isaäc Nicolaas Theodoor Diepenhorst

Isaäc Nicolaas Theodoor Diepenhorst

Isaäc Nicolaas Theodoor Diepenhorst (born March 20, 1907 in Amsterdam ; † December 31, 1976 in Epe , Gelderland province ) was a Dutch politician at the Christelijk-Historische Unie (CHU), who, among other things, was State Secretary in the Marijnen cabinet in the Foreign Ministry between 1963 and 1965 was.

Life

Studies, Mayor of Epe and provincial politics

Diepenhorst came from a politically influential family and was the son of Pieter Diepenhorst , who was a member of the First Chamber of the States General between 1920 and 1946 as a representative of the Anti-Revolutionaire Partij (ARP) . His uncle Gerrit Diepenhorst was a member of the Second Chamber of the States General from 1937 to 1946 as a representative of the ARP . He was also cousin of the ARP politician, minister and member of the First Chamber Wilhelm Friedrich de Gaay Fortman and the lawyer André Donner , who was both a judge at the European Court of Justice and a judge at the European Court of Human Rights .

After attending the Gereformeerd Gymnasium in Amsterdam on September 17, 1924, he began studying law in the Netherlands at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam , which he completed on April 1, 1928. On June 19, 1931, he completed his doctorate in law at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam with the dissertation Juvenile unemployment and how to deal with it . He then began working as a librarian in the information department of the Ministry of Economic Affairs on December 1, 1931, and worked there until January 15, 1939.

Diepenhorst succeeded Daniël Frederik Johannes van Walsem as Mayor of Epe on January 15, 1939 and held this position until his dismissal by the German occupying forces on May 3, 1943, whereupon Jan Jacob Cassa from the Nationaal-Socialistische Bewegungsing (NSB) as Mayor was installed. He then studied Catholic theology at the Rijksuniversiteit Utrecht until 1945 . After the end of the Second World War , on May 16, 1946, he again assumed the office of mayor of Epe, which he held until he was replaced by the PvdA politician CN Renken on July 6, 1954. He then became a member of the Provincial Parliament ( Provinciale Staten ) of the Province of Gelderland on July 6, 1954 and was a member of this until June 6, 1962. At the same time he was between July 6, 1954 and June 6, 1962 a member of the Gedeputeerde State government of the province of Gelderland. He was also chairman of the CHU-affiliated Alexander de Savornin Lohman Foundation from January 1, 1955 to 1975 .

Member of the Second Chamber and State Secretary

Furthermore, Diepenhorst was elected on November 6, 1956 as a representative of the Christelijk-Historische Unie (CHU) as a member of the Second Chamber of the States General, of which he was a member until November 28, 1963. He was also an advisory member of the main board and the unity council of the CHU between 1957 and 1963. During his parliamentary membership he was from October 4, 1962 to June 5, 1963 Vice-Chairman of the Standing Committee on Transitional Affairs of Dutch New Guinea , between May 16 and November 28, 1963 Vice-Chairman of the CHU parliamentary group in the Second Chamber and most recently from June 18 to September 17, 1963 Chairman of the Standing Committee on Education, Art and Science.

On November 28, 1963, Prime Minister Victor Marijnen appointed him State Secretary in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Staatssecretaris van Buitenlandse Zaken) in his government and held this office until April 14, 1965. He was in this position in particular for matters of the United Nations , the specialized agencies the United Nations and development aid. On April 20, 1965 he was awarded the Knight's Cross of the Order of the Dutch Lion .

After he had withdrawn from political life from April 14, 1965 to September 1, 1967 without any functions, Diepenhorst became the provisional successor to the sick Mayor of Doesburg , Conradin Flugi van Aspermont , on September 1, 1967 , and also held this position after Aspermonts Death on May 15, 1968, still provisionally until he was replaced by Huib van Walsum on January 1, 1969. From 1967 until his death in 1976 he was once again an advisory member of the main board and the unity council of the CHU. During this time, between April 1967 and September 1969, he was also a member of the so-called "Group of Eighteen" (Groep van Achttien) , which was considering the cooperation between ARP, CHU and Katholieke Volkspartij (KVP). On May 23, 1971, he was again a member of the Second Chamber of the General for the CHU and was a member of this until May 10, 1971.

His marriage to Anna Schütte on September 17, 1936 in The Hague resulted in four sons and two daughters, including Peter Diepenhorst , who was mayor of Domburg between 1975 and 1987 and then the last mayor of Maartensdijk from 1987 to 2001 .

publication

• Juvenile unemployment and how to deal with it , Dissertation, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, 1931

Web links

• CV in Parlement & Politiek

Individual evidence

1. ^ Pieter Diepenhorst in Parlement & Politiek
2. ↑ Gerrit Diepenhorst in Parlement & Politiek
3. ^ Wilhelm Friedrich de Gaay Fortman in Parlement & Politiek
4. ^ André Donner in Parlement & Politiek