Job de Ruiter

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Jacob "Job" de Ruiter (1980)

Jacob "Job" de Ruiter (born April 30, 1930 in Giessendam , province of Zuid-Holland ; † October 4, 2015 in Naarden , province of Noord-Holland ) was a Dutch lawyer , university professor and politician of the Anti-Revolutionaire Partij (ARP) as well then the Christen-Democratisch Appèl (CDA), who was Minister of Justice between 1977 and 1982 and Minister of Defense from 1982 to 1986 . As a lawyer and university lecturer, he dealt in particular with family, juvenile and juvenile criminal law and, during his work as Minister of Justice in the Van Agt I cabinet in 1981, together with the Minister for Health and Environment Leendert Ginjaar, defended the new, liberal legal regulation on abortion , which was introduced for Came into force on November 1, 1984. As Minister of Defense, he accepted a possible deployment of cruise missiles , although he was not considered a “ falcon ” of a deployment.

Life

Jacob "Job" de Ruiter completed a law degree at the University of Utrecht , which he completed in 1953 with a Magister (Meester in derechte) . He was a student friend of Willem Aantjes and a member of the Nieuwe afdeling Utrecht student association of the Societas Studiosorum Reformatorum (SSR-NU). After he was a research assistant at the University of Utrecht, he worked as a lawyer in Amsterdam between 1955 and 1958 . After a judicial training he was from 1962 to 1963 deputy head of the office of the District Court of Utrecht and put his 1963 promotion to Doctor of Law from. He then took on a professorship for law at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam , where he dealt in particular with family, juvenile and juvenile criminal law. On September 1, 1976, he replaced Isaäc Arend Diepenhorst as rector of the Free University of Amsterdam and held this position until December 19, 1977, when Dick Schenkeveld succeeded him.

On December 19, 1977, de Ruiter, who joined the Anti-Revolutionaire Partij (ARP) on December 18, 1979 , became Minister of Justice (Minister van Justitie) in the Van Agt I cabinet and held this ministerial office from September 11, 1981 to 29. May 1982 also in the Van Agt II cabinet and from May 29 to November 4, 1982 in the Van Agt III cabinet . During this time he was between June 10 and September 9, 1981 and between September 16 and November 4, 1982 for the Christian Democratic Appèl (CDA) after the parliamentary elections until the formation of a government member of the Second Chamber of the States General (Tweede Kamer der Staten-Generaal) . In August 1981 he was one of the 16 CDA parliamentary group members who only voted against the draft coalition agreement between the CDA, Partij van de Arbeid (PvdA) and Democrats 66 (D66) because the leader of the parliamentary group, Dries van Agt , would resign if it were accepted . During his tenure as Minister of Justice in the Van Agt I cabinet in 1981, together with the Minister for Health and Environment Leendert Ginjaar, he defended the new, liberal legal regulation on abortion , which came into force on November 1, 1984.

On November 4, 1982 Job de Ruiter took over the office of Defense Minister (Minister van Defensie) in the Lubbers I cabinet , which he held until July 14, 1986. As Minister of Defense, he accepted a possible deployment of cruise missiles , although he was not considered a “ falcon ” of a deployment. After leaving the government, he succeeded Hendrik Lagerwaard as Attorney General (Procureur-generaal) of Amsterdam in 1986 and held this office until 1990, when Rutger van Randwijck succeeded him. At the same time, on November 25, 1988, he was initially appointed as an associate professor for personal, family and youth law at the University of Utrecht, where he last held a full professorship for personal and family between September 1, 1993 and May 1, 1995 - and held youth law. Later, from November 2004, he was also chairman of the Advisory Committee on Fundamental Rights and the Functions of Civil Servants and, in 2006, chairman of the Investment Insurance Committee.

Web links

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Van Agt I cabinet
  2. ↑ Van Agt II cabinet
  3. ↑ Van Agt III cabinet
  4. ^ Cabinet Lubbers I
personal data
SURNAME Ruiter, Job de
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ruiter, Jacob de
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Dutch politician (ARP, CDA), minister and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH April 30, 1930
PLACE OF BIRTH Giessendam , Province of Zuid-Holland
DATE OF DEATH 4th October 2015
Place of death Naarden , North Holland Province