Mike Keyzer
Meijer "Mike" Joseph Keyzer (born October 15, 1911 in Venlo , Limburg province ; † July 16, 1983 in The Hague ) was a Dutch diplomat and politician of the People's Party for Vrijheid en Democratie (VVD), who was among other things briefly a member of the Second Chamber of States General , State Secretary and between 1971 and 1982 chairman of the broadcasting company Algemene Vereniging Radio Omroep (AVRO).
Life
Persecuted by National Socialism and diplomat
After attending the Hogere Burgerschool in Venlo on September 16, 1930, Keyzer, who comes from a Jewish merchant family , began studying economics at the Dutch School of Commerce in Rotterdam , which he did not graduate. He also took part in courses at the Faculty of Literature at the University of Grenoble . In 1933 he became an employee in the Ministry of Economic Affairs ( Ministerie van Economische Zaken ).
At the beginning of the occupation of the Netherlands by the German Wehrmacht in World War II , he was an employee of the Jewish Council and then interned at the Schaffelaar estate in Barneveld until September 29, 1943 and then in the Westerbork transit camp until September 4, 1944 , before he was interned Was in Theresienstadt concentration camp until February 1945 .
After a short stay in Switzerland , Keyzer became an employee of the Foreign Service of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs ( Ministerie van Buitenlandse Zaken ) in 1945 and, after working at the embassy in Great Britain, was first trade secretary and head of the economic department at the embassy in Switzerland between 1946 and 1947 between 1947 and 1951 he was advisor to the Permanent Mission to the United Nations Office in Geneva . He then served from 1951 to October 1963 as a commercial counselor and head of the economic department at the embassy in France , where he last held the rank of envoy from 1959 to 1963.
State Secretary, Member of the Second Chamber of the States General and Broadcasting Director
Keyzer, of the 1963 member of the People's Party for Freedom and Democracy (VVD) was, was from August 14, 1963 Prime Minister Victor Marijnen of State for freight transport and international transport affairs in the Ministry of Transport and Waterways ( Ministerie van Verkeer en Waterstaat ) in the government appointed and held this office until the end of Marijnen's tenure on April 14, 1965. On April 20, 1965 he was honored with the Knight's Cross of the Order of the Dutch Lion . He then acted from September 13, 1965 to September 1966 as chairman of the commission for shipbuilding.
After he was from February 23 to April 18, 1967 a member of the Second Chamber of the States General and from March 1 to April 18, 1967 Chairman of the Commission of the Second Chamber for Shipbuilding, Keyzer was appointed Secretary of State for by the new Prime Minister Piet de Jong Aviation, Shipping and Freight Transport in the Ministry of Transport and Waterways and held this office in the De Jong cabinet until July 6, 1971. On July 17, 1971, he became Commander of the Order of Orange-Nassau .
After retiring from the government Keyzer on September 11, 1971 was chairman of the broadcasting company Algemene Vereniging Radio Omroep (AVRO) and has held this function until 1 January 1982. He was also since 1976 chairman of the Stichting way , a foundation for the promotion of lobbying the automotive industry, as well as the Commissioner's Council of Industriebank Limburg, the predecessor organization of the Limburgs Instituut voor Ontwikkeling en Financiering (LIOF).
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| SURNAME | Keyzer, Mike |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Keyzer, Meijer Joseph (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Dutch diplomat, politician and broadcast director |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 15, 1911 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Venlo , Limburg Province |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 16, 1983 |
| Place of death | The hague |