Pieter Bogaers

Pieter Bogaers (1966)

Pieter Clemens Wilhelmus Maria Bogaers (* July 2, 1924 in Cuijk , Province of North Brabant ; † July 5, 2008 in Amersfoort , Province of Utrecht ) was a Dutch economist and politician of the Katholieke Volkspartij (KVP) and temporarily the Politieke Partij Raduellen (PPR), who was a member of the Second Chamber of the States General and between 1963 and 1965 Minister for Housing and Construction in the Cabinet of Prime Minister Victor Marijnen and Minister for Housing and Regional Planning in the Cabinet of Prime Minister Jo Cals . Within the CIP he represented the wing of the trade unions . During his tenure as Minister of Housing, the number of new apartments rose to 100,000 per year and he submitted the Second Spatial Planning Proposal, which focused on the growth of suburbs to relieve cities. On April 27, 1968 he was one of the founders of the PPR, but returned in 1973 as a member of the KVP.

Life

Studies and professional career

After attending the Roman Catholic Bisschoppelijk College in Roermond in 1941, Bogaers, the son of a wholesaler, began studying economics at the Catholic Business School in Tilburg , which he completed on October 24, 1947 after an interruption during the occupation of the Netherlands by the German Wehrmacht .

Subsequently, between 1948 and 1957 he was a research assistant at the Catholic School of Business in Tilburg and there, among other things, at the Chair of Economics of Professor Jan van den Brink . In addition, between 1948 and 1957 he worked as an economic advisor to the Katholieke Arbeiders Bewegungsing KAB, the Dutch equivalent of the German Catholic workers' movement . He then acted between 1957 and July 24, 1963 as director of the Scientific Advisory Office of the KAB.

MP and Minister

The Cals cabinet at its first meeting on April 15, 1965

On March 20, 1959, Bogaers was elected a member of the Second Chamber of the States General, where he represented the interests of the Katholieke Volkspartij (KVP) until July 24, 1963. Within the KVP, he represented the wing of the trade unions.

Prime Minister Victor Marijnen appointed him Minister for Housing and Construction (Minister van Volkshuisvesting en Bouwnijverheid) in his cabinet on July 24, 1963 . In the following cabinet of Prime Minister Jo Cals he acted between April 5, 1965 and November 22, 1966 as Minister for Housing and Regional Planning (Minister van Volkshuisvesting en Ruimtelijke Ordening) . In addition, he was from May 1 to June 30, 1966 during the absence of Ko Suurhoff also acting Minister for Transport and Water Management (Minister van Verkeer en Waterstaat) . During his tenure as Minister of Housing, the number of new apartments rose to 100,000 per year and he submitted the Second Spatial Planning Proposal, which focused on the growth of suburbs to relieve cities.

For his services he was appointed on April 29, 1963, first with the officer and then on December 5, 1966 to the command of the Order of Orange-Nassau .

After he left the KVP on March 1, 1968, he was one of the co-founders of the Politieke Partij Radicalen (PPR) alongside Jacques Aarden and Erik Jurgens and was from April 27, 1968 until his resignation due to health reasons on July 1, 1968 Chairman of the PPR.

On December 15, 1968, Bogaers became chairman of Het Gooi , a region in the province of North Holland , and remained in this position until December 14, 1974. Due to dissatisfaction with the political course of the PPR, he resigned on October 21, 1970 and in 1973 he became a member of the KVP again.

He was also involved between 1976 and 1990 as chairman of the Dutch Asthma Fund.

Background literature

• R. van der Kroef: Herinneringen van Pieter Bogaers, bouwminister , 2004
• W. Slagter: Pieter Bogaers 1924-2008 , in: Trouw, July 16, 2008
• W. Aantjes: Herinneringen aan Pieter Bogaers, bouwminister (1924-2008) , in: Jaarboek Parlementaire Geschiedenis, 2009 , p. 137

Web links

• CV in Parlement & Politiek