Joan Röell

Joan Röell (born July 21, 1844 in Haarlem , † July 13, 1914 in The Hague ) was a Dutch statesman. From 1894 to 1897 he was Prime Minister of his country.

Life

Joan Röell came from a Dutch noble family. He studied law in Utrecht from 1861 to 1866 and worked briefly as a lawyer.

In 1877 he was elected to the Second Chamber of the States General in Utrecht , where he joined the moderate liberals. In May 1883 he became a member of the commission for the preparation of a constitutional revision. After he had failed the elections in June 1886 and became a member of the First Chamber for Zeeland in April 1887 , he rejoined the Second Chamber for Utrecht in March 1888 and became a member of the Guardianship Council of the young Queen Wilhelmina in the same year .

In April 1894 he was given the task of forming a liberal cabinet, in which, as Prime Minister, he took over the chairmanship and at the same time the management of the Foreign Ministry. Its interior minister was Samuel van Houten. Two of the reform projects of his cabinet were a new suffrage, which did not abolish the census suffrage , but doubled the number of those entitled to vote, and the law for the formation of local chambers of labor ( Kamers van Arbeid ) , which was largely promoted by Samuel van Houten, as a preliminary form of trade union organization. In parliament in 1894 he achieved the ratification of the treaty concluded with Belgium in 1892 on the border between the Dutch municipality of Baarle-Nassau and the Belgian municipality of Baarle-Hertog .

In July 1897 he resigned with his government team. He remained a member of the Second Chamber ever since and became its chairman in 1905. In 1914 he died in The Hague at the age of 70.

literature

Röell, Joan , in: Meyers Konversations-Lexikon , 6th edition, 1902-08, Vol. 17, p. 49.

Web links

Year Mr. J. Röell , Parlement & Politiek

Footnotes

↑ Horst Lademacher : History of the Netherlands. Politics - Constitution - Economy . Scientific Book Society, Darmstadt 1983, ISBN 3-534-07082-8 , p. 296.

personal data
SURNAME	Röell, Joan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Dutch statesman (Prime Minister 1894-1897)
DATE OF BIRTH	July 21, 1844
PLACE OF BIRTH	Haarlem
DATE OF DEATH	July 13, 1914
Place of death	The hague

[1] Horst Lademacher : History of the Netherlands. Politics - Constitution - Economy . Scientific Book Society, Darmstadt 1983, ISBN 3-534-07082-8 , p. 296.