Jeanine Hennis-Plasschaert

Jeanine Hennis-Plasschaert (2015)

Jeanine Antoinette Hennis-Plasschaert (born April 7, 1973 in Heerlen ) is a Dutch politician of the liberal Volkspartij voor Vrijheid en Democratie (VVD). She was the Dutch Minister of Defense from November 5, 2012 to October 4, 2017 .

Life

After completing school at St. Antonius Kolleg in Gouda , she studied at the European Secretarial Academy in Utrecht and then worked for the European Commission .

Since the European elections in 2004 , Hennis-Plasschaert was a member of the VVD in the European Parliament and there a member of the liberal ALDE parliamentary group . She was re-elected in the 2009 European elections . As an EU MEP, Hennis-Plasschaert was initially a member of the Committee on Transport and Tourism and, since 2007, of the Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs . Here she was the responsible rapporteur for the controversial SWIFT agreement , which on her proposal was rejected by the European Parliament on February 11, 2010 with 378 to 196 votes.

In the Dutch parliamentary elections in 2010 , Hennis-Plasschaert won a seat in the Second Chamber of the States General and then resigned her mandate in the European Parliament. On November 5, 2012, she became the first woman to become Minister of Defense of the Netherlands in the Rutte II cabinet . On October 4, 2017, she resigned following a critical report by the Security Inquiry into a mortar accident during the military mission in Mali that killed two soldiers.

Hennis-Plasschaert is married to Erik-Jan Hennis.

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personal data
SURNAME	Hennis-Plasschaert, Jeanine
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Hennis-Plasschaert, Jeanine Antoinette
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Dutch politician (VVD), MEP
DATE OF BIRTH	April 7, 1973
PLACE OF BIRTH	Heerlen