Cabinet Drees II

The cabinet ministers taking office, in front of Palais Soestdijk .

The second Drees cabinet formed the government of the Netherlands from September 2, 1952 to October 13, 1956 .

It was a coalition of the social democratic PvdA and the Christian democratic parties KVP , ARP and CHU .

composition

Business area / office	minister	Political party
general affairs prime minister	Willem Drees	PvdA
Interior Deputy Prime Minister	Louis Beel until July 7, 1956	CIP
Interior	Julius Christiaan van Oven from July 7, 1956	PvdA
Exterior	Johan Willem Beijen	independent
Judiciary	Leendert Antonie Donker until February 4, 1956	PvdA
	Louis Beel February 4-15 , 1956	CIP
	Julius Christiaan van Oven from February 15, 1956	PvdA
Education, art and science	Jo Cals	CIP
Finances	Johan van de Kieft	PvdA
War navy	Kees Staf	CHU
Reconstruction and Housing	Herman Witte	CIP
Transport and water management	Jacob Algera	ARP
economy	Jelle Zijlstra	ARP
Agriculture, fishing and food supply	Sicco Mansholt	PvdA
Social and health	Ko Suurhoff	PvdA
Social welfare	Louis Beel until September 9, 1952	CIP
Social welfare	Frans-Jozef van Thiel from September 9, 1952	CIP
Union affairs and overseas parts of the empire / overseas parts of the empire (from January 1, 1953)	Willem Jan Arend Kernkamp until July 18, 1956	CHU
	Kees Staf from July 18, 1956	CHU
Minister with no portfolio	Joseph Luns	CIP
Minister without portfolio entrusted with public service organization	Adrianus Cornelis de Bruijn	CIP

Business area	State Secretary	Political party
Education, art and science	Anna de Waal from February 1, 1953	CIP
Finances	Willem Hendrik van den Berge from February 1, 1953	PvdA
war	Ferdinand Jan Kranenburg	PvdA
marine	Harry Moorman	CIP
economy	Gerard Veldkamp from October 8, 1952	CIP
Social and health	Aart van Rhijn	PvdA
Social and health	Pieter Muntendam until October 1, 1953	PvdA