Louis Beel

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Louis Beel, 1947

Louis Joseph Maria Beel (born April 12, 1902 in Roermond ; † February 11, 1977 in Utrecht ) was a Dutch politician and Prime Minister , from 1946 to 1948 in the Beel I cabinet and from 1958 to 1959 in the Beel II cabinet .

youth

Louis Beel was the son of the veterinarian Theodor Antoon Louis Beel and his wife Anna Maria Allegonda Rutten. He attended the Episcopal College in Roermond, which he completed in 1920 with general secondary education . His first position was that of a parish secretary for the parish of Roermond. In 1924 he became secretary of PJMGils, the First Episcopal Inspector in Limburg . In the same year Beel enrolled as a law student at the Roman Catholic University in Nijmegen . In 1925 he became a civil servant in the Provincial Chancellery of Overijssel after his application to become a civil servant secretary of the Deurne municipality was rejected.

On September 21, 1926 he married Henrica Gerardina Maria Josepha van der Meulen. The marriage resulted in a son and three daughters.

Profession and wartime

After taking his doctoral examination in law in 1928, he worked in the municipal secretariat of Eindhoven from 1929 , and since 1934 as deputy municipal secretary. In 1935 he received his doctorate with a dissertation on the question "Self-administration or dependent decentralization?" ( Zelfbestuur of afhankelijke decentralisatie? ).

When an NSB mayor was elected in Eindhoven in 1942 , he voluntarily said goodbye and set up a law firm specializing in administrative law. After the war he hoped to pursue a scientific career, but chance brought him into post-war politics. Immediately after the end of the Second World War , he was hired by the military authorities of Noord-Brabant as an advisor on social affairs. This activity also brought him to London , where Queen Wilhelmina was still in exile and whose trust he was able to win.

politics

From February 23, 1945 he began his political career as Minister of the Interior in the Gerbrandy III cabinet and in the Schermerhorn / Drees cabinet . After the electoral victory of his party, the Catholic KVP , Beel was Prime Minister for the first time from July 3, 1946 to August 7, 1948. In 1948 and 1949 he held the post of representative of the Crown in the Dutch East Indies , from which he resigned in May 1949 in protest against the government's Indonesian policy, which in his opinion was too indulgent. He was succeeded by AHJ Lovink .

From 1949 to 1951 Beel taught administrative law and administrative studies at the University of Nijmegen.

From December 6, 1951, he was again appointed Minister of the Interior in the Drees II cabinet , and in September 1952 he also held the newly created post of Minister of Social Affairs for a few days before he was replaced by Frans-Jozef van Thiel . On July 7, 1956, he resigned as minister to join the Van Drie Commission (later called the Beel Commission ), which investigated the Greet Hofmans affair at the request of Queen Juliana and Prince Bernhard . On November 21, 1956, the Queen appointed him Minister of State .

After the resignation of the fourth Dree cabinet, he was again Prime Minister in the second (interim) Beel cabinet from December 22, 1958 to May 19, 1959. His successor was Jan de Quay .

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SURNAME Beel, Louis
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Beel, Louis Joseph Maria (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Dutch legal scholar and politician (RKSP, KVP, Prime Minister 1946–1948, 1958–1959)
DATE OF BIRTH April 12, 1902
PLACE OF BIRTH Roermond
DATE OF DEATH February 11, 1977
Place of death Utrecht