Jos van Kemenade

Jos van Kemenade

Josephus Antonius (Jos) van Kemenade (born March 6, 1937 in Amsterdam - † February 19, 2020 in Heiloo ) was a Dutch sociologist , educator , university professor , politician and minister of state .

biography

Studies and professional career

Jos van Kemenade came from a simple family background. His grandfathers were a carpenter and a worker in a bread factory. His father worked as an accountant . After attending the Catholic high school Sint Nicolaas Lyceum in Amsterdam , he studied pedagogy and sociology at the Catholic University of Nijmegen from 1955 to May 1960 and graduated cum laude .

In 1958 he became a member of the Partij van de Arbeid (PvdA) and was then until 1965 research assistant at the Institute for Sociology at the Catholic University of Nijmegen . From 1960 to 1965 he was also an advisor to the Catholic Social Church Institute ( Katholiek Sociaal-Kerkelijk Institute , KASKI). From 1965 to November 1970 he was director of the Institute for Applied Sociology in Nijmegen . During this time he received his doctorate in social sciences on May 10, 1968 .

In November 1970 he accepted a position as professor of sociological education at the Catholic University of Nijmegen and worked there until May 1973. During this time he was from January 1971 to May 1973 also a member of the commission for the revision of the curriculum for civic education and from December 1972 to May 1973 also a member of the board of directors of the university.

Minister and MP

On May 11, 1973 appointed him Prime Minister Joop den Uyl to Minister of Education and Science in the Cabinet, where he remained until the end of the Uyls term on 19 December 1977th

On June 8, 1977 he was also elected a member of the Second Chamber of the States General (Tweede Kamer der Staten-Generaal) , but was only a member until September 8, 1977. Between January 1978 and September 1981 he was again a member of the Second Chamber and at the same time parliamentary group secretary of the PvdA. He was also a member of the Presidium of the Second Chamber between September 1979 and September 1981.

In September 1978 he also accepted a position as professor for school education at the University of Groningen, where he taught once a week until September 1981. In 1979 he was an educational advisor to UNESCO .

Prime Minister Dries van Agt appointed him again on September 11, 1981 as Minister for Education and Science in his government, of which he was a member until May 29, 1982. He then took up the post of information technician between June and September 1982 to form a successor government. At that time he was also one of the possible candidates to succeed Joop den Uyl as party leader of the PvdA.

University professor and mayor

In September 1982 he took up a position as professor for general and comparative school pedagogy at the University of Amsterdam , where he worked as a university lecturer until August 1984 .

During this time he was again a member of the Second Chamber of the States General and a member of the parliamentary committee of the PvdA from September 1982 to September 1984. At the same time he was chairman of the committee for affairs of the Netherlands Antilles from June 1983 to September 1984 .

In 1984 he also became vice chairman of the Pax Christi peace movement . In September 1984 he was appointed chairman of the board of directors of the University of Amsterdam. He held this office until March 1988. At the same time he was a member of the PvdA's executive committee from April 1985 to April 1987 and at times a member of the board of trustees of the Wiardi Beckman Foundation (WBS) and chairman of its education commission. From February 1987 to 1994 he was also chairman of the board of trustees of the WBS.

From March 1988 to May 1992 he was mayor of Eindhoven . Between September 1988 and February 1993 he was chairman of the Netherlands Organization for Cooperation in Higher Education (NUFFIC). In November 1988, he became an honorary professor at Nanjing University .

In November 1989 he turned down an appointment as Minister of the Interior in the government of Prime Minister Ruud Lubbers for health reasons.

Later, from February 1990 to July 1991, he was also chairman of the commission for political strategy and party culture of the PvdA and as such editor of the report “Een partij om te kiezen uit”. In July 1990 he became a member of the board of commissioners of the central bank De Nederlandsche Bank , of which he has been vice chairman since 1994.

On March 15, 1991, the University of Ghent awarded him an honorary doctorate in educational sciences.

Between February 1992 and January 1997 he was also Chairman of the Council for Domestic Affairs (Raad voor het Binnenlands Bestuur).

Queen's Commissioner and Honorary Offices

He then became Commissioner of the Queen (Commissaris van de Koningin) of North Holland on May 1, 1992 and was thus head of the provincial government for almost ten years until April 2002. In addition, he has been chairman of the Center for Foreign Policy (Nederlands Centrum Buitenlanders, NCB) since June 1992 and a member of the KPMG advisory body since April 1993 .

In August 1994 he again refused an appointment as Minister of the Interior in the government of Prime Minister Wim Kok for health reasons.

Between February 1996 and December 1997 he was also chairman of the Max Havelaar Foundation and from September 1996 and 1998 chairman of the external project commission “ Crime and Integration of Ethnic Minorities ”. From November 1997 to September 2001 he was also the chairman of IPO, an organization that advises the provinces of the Netherlands .

In August 1998 he was appointed by the Wim Kok government to investigate the occurrence of the Dutch armed forces in Srebrenica and submitted a report a month later.

From 1999 he was CEO of the real estate company Bouwfonds Fondsenbeheer.

Between March 2000 and May 2002 he was also an honorary professor for general social sciences at the University of Amsterdam. In addition, he was also chairman of the Institute for Multiparty Democracy (IMD) from 2001 and was also chairman of the Council for Public Administration (Raad voor het Openbaar Bestuur, ROB) from June 2001 to July 2009. From November 2001 he was also chairman of the supervisory board of Wageningen University .

From March 2002 he was chairman of the jury of the “Prof. Dr. JA van Kemenade-Prijs ”.

On April 5, 2002, he was awarded the honorary title of Minister of State (Minister van Staat) for his services .

Between April 2002 and May 2007 he was also chairman of the Reich Commissions for Urban Planning (Rijksplanologische Commissie, RPC) and for Environmental Hygiene (Rijksmilieuhygiënische Commissie, RMC).

In September 2002 he became Professor of Social Sciences at the Open University of the Netherlands in Heerlen .

Awards

In April 1978 he was made Knight of the Order of the Dutch Lions and in September 1982 appointed Commander of the Order of Orange-Nassau . Furthermore, after his resignation as Commissioner of the Queen in March 2002, he received the “Silver Pfennig” from the province of North Holland and the silver medal from the City of Amsterdam.

Publications

During his academic and political career, he also published several specialist books. His major publications include:

• De kathieken en hun onderwijs ( dissertation , 1968)
• As de smalle weegbree bloeit (1979)
• Onderwijs, bestel en insult (1981)
• State of Vrij (1981)
• Over onderwijs Gesproken (1983)
• with Jozef Maria Mathias Ritzen and Thijs Wöltgens: Om een ​​werkbare toekomst (1984)
• Geloven in de Oogst. Opstellen over onderwijs, politiek en openbaar bestuur (1991)
• Vanuit Eindhoven exposed (1992)
• Ceders in de tuin. Over onderwijsbeleid voor allochtonen (1992)
• Democracy as opgave (2002)
• Wakken in het kroos (2003)

Web links

Commons : Jos van Kemenade  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Dr. YES (Jos) van Kemenade . In: Parlament.com (Dutch)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Oud-onderwijsminister Jos van Kemenade (82) overleden. Retrieved February 20, 2020 (Dutch).