Roel van Duijn

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Roel van Duijn 2008 looking at a photo of himself from the 1960s

Roeland Hugo Gerrit (Roel) van Duijn (born January 20, 1943 in The Hague ) is a former Dutch politician and political activist who is now an author and therapist. He founded the Provo and the Kabouter movement , he was also an alderman for the Politieke Partij radicals , a member of the municipal council and provincial states for De Groenen and a district delegate for the GroenLinks party .

Life

Van Duijn was born into an anthroposophical family in The Hague. He went to a Montessori school and finished his school career in 1963. In The Hague, he was active in the peace movement in the 1960s , where he organized sit-ins against the atomic bomb. At the time he was working as an editor for the anarchist magazine De Vrije Socialist . Together with Martin Ananar, Rob Stolk and Frank Nieuenhuizen, Roel van Duijn founded the Provo movement in April 1965, in which he was active until 1967; he was also instrumental in founding Provo magazine .

After graduation, he moved to Amsterdam in 1963 and studied political science and history . In 1969 he founded the ecologically oriented Kabouter movement . On April 17, 1970, he was briefly kidnapped by the right-wing radical Joop Baank , of which he later did not inform the police authorities.

For the progressive party Politieke Partij Raduellen (PPR) he was a member since 1973 and since 1974 an alderman in the local council. He refused the company car provided and had a company bicycle made available. On February 15, 1975 right-wing extremists, including Baank, planted a bomb in the Vensterpolder underground station, which was under construction. Authorities suspected left-wing squatters had committed the act, and van Duijn was the only local alderman who refused to sign an indictment against the protesters who actively protested the construction of the subway station. His term of office as councilor ended in January 1976. During his time in local government, he initiated several initiatives, such as renewable energy , local cable network and the local community television SALTO.

As an organic farmer , van Duijn founded a cheese farm in Veele, Vlagtwedde district , and had two sons and later a daughter. In 1981 he went back to Amsterdam and sold his farm in Veele in 1983. A year later he ran for the Groen Progressief Akkoord (GPA), a combination list of the PPR, Communist Partij van Nederland (CPN) and the Pacifist Socialist Party (PSP) for the European Parliament. He was not given a mandate, so he was a member of the parliamentary group as a political advisor. Shortly afterwards, van Duijn fell out with the PPR and left the party to join the De Groenen. In 1989 he ran at number 1 on their list in the national election without receiving a mandate. For De Groenen, he joined the local council for the second time in 1996 and the provincial council of North Holland in 1999 . In 2001 he joined the GroenLinks party . He had previously pleaded in vain for the merger of De Groenen and GroenLinks. In 2006 he became a local council member in Amsterdam Oud-Zuid .

On November 29, 2008 van Duijn ended his political career. After around forty years of active politics, he now dedicates himself as an author and therapist to the subject of lovesickness ; He wrote a book about it in 2004. On a special website, people with a “broken heart” can contact him. “Five years ago I was very heartbroken. Since then I have been helping people who are lovesick. ”(Roel van Duijn).

Since 1962, as it became known in July 2009, van Duijn has been shadowed by the Dutch secret service . R. van Duijn was able to look at a dossier with a length of 353 pages, from which he could see what information was collected about him. The files go back to the age of 19 when he was involved in a demonstration against the atomic bomb.

Works

  • The message of a wise brownie: the political concept of the Kabouter. A reflection on the philosophical work of Peter Kropotkin in connection with today's choice between catastrophe and Heinzelmännchenstadt. Wuppertal: Jugenddienst-Verlag 1971 ISBN 3-7795-7112-9
  • Introduction to provocative thinking u. a. , Oberbaumpresse, Berlin 1966 and Libertad-Verlag, Berlin 1983
  • Call to the international provotariat . Oberbaumpresse, Linkeck-Almanach.
  • Liefdesverdriet , followed by Hoe word ik een ster in ldvd ?, 2004. ISBN 90-290-7532-5

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Archief Roel van Duijn period 1960–2003. By Jan van der Hoef (2000), at the International Institute for Social History. Retrieved June 3, 2009
  2. ↑ Quoted by: Wereldomroep . Author: Klaas den Tek; December 28, 2008  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. RvDuijn retires; Dutch. Retrieved June 5, 2009@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / static.rnw.nl  
  3. ↑ Author: Jeff Pinkster, in Het Parool, July 19, 2009 Dutch secret service releases dossier on R. van Duijn. Dutch, accessed July 19, 2009
personal data
SURNAME Duijn, Roel van
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Duijn, Roeland Gerrit Hugo van (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Dutch politician and activist
DATE OF BIRTH January 20, 1943
PLACE OF BIRTH The hague