Cabinet Drees III

The Cabinet at its first meeting on October 12, 1956

The Drees Third Cabinet formed the government of the Netherlands from October 13, 1956 to December 22, 1958 .

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
Exterior	Joseph Luns	CIP
Judiciary	Ivo Samkalden	PvdA
Interior until October 26, 1956	Ko Suurhoff	PvdA
Internal affairs, wealth creation and company organization under public law	Ko Suurhoff October 26, 1956 to October 29, 1956	PvdA
Home affairs, wealth creation and public company organization Deputy Prime Minister	Teun Struycken from October 29, 1956	CIP
Education, art and science	Jo Cals	CIP
Finances	Henk Hofstra	PvdA
War navy	Kees Staf	CHU
Housing and construction	Herman Witte	CIP
Transport and water management	Jacob Algera until October 10, 1958	ARP
	Herman Witte October 10 to November 1, 1958	CIP
	Jan van Aartsen from November 1, 1958	ARP
economy	Jelle Zijlstra	ARP
Agriculture, fishing and food supply	Sicco Mansholt until January 1, 1958	PvdA
	Kees Staf January 1st to 11th, 1958	CHU
	Anne Vondeling from January 11, 1958	PvdA
Social and health	Ko Suurhoff	PvdA
Social welfare	Marga Klompé	CIP
Overseas parts of the empire until February 14, 1957	Kees Staf	CHU
Overseas affairs from February 14, 1957	Gerardus Philippus Helders	CHU

Business area	State Secretary	Political party
Exterior	Ernst van der Beugel from January 8, 1957	PvdA
Internal affairs, wealth creation and company organization under public law	Norbert Schmelzer from November 12, 1956	CIP
Education, art and science	Anna de Waal from March 16, 1957	CIP
Education, art and science	René Höppener from October 29, 1956	CIP
war	Ferdinand Jan Kranenburg until June 1, 1958	PvdA
war	My van Veen from October 17, 1958	PvdA
marine	Harry Moorman	CIP
economy	Gerard Veldkamp	CIP
Social and health	Aart van Rhijn	PvdA