Taeke Cnossen

Taeke Cnossen (1961)

Taeke Cnossen (born June 20, 1896 in Idsega , † January 12, 1988 in Leeuwarden ) was a Dutch journalist and functionary.

Life

Cnossen actually wanted to become an officer against his father's wishes and wrote a letter to the then Minister of War and later Prime Minister Hendrikus Colijn , who would later become of great importance to him, in order to ask his opinion on his career aspirations. He actually received a personal response in which Colijn supported him, but Cnossen was eventually discharged from the army due to his poor eyesight. He first became an apprentice at a dairy, but then emigrated to the United States . Cnossen worked on a farm there, but things didn't go as he'd imagined here either. After a year and a half he heard that the Christian newspaper Friesch Dagblad was looking for someone who could write on the subject of emigration to the United States, if possible. Cnossen applied and was hired, so he returned to the Netherlands in 1919. After another year and a half he moved from his regional newspaper to the national De Standaard , the party newspaper of the anti-revolutionary party .

This time at his new place of work he met Colijn personally again, who last year had taken over the editor-in-chief from the party and newspaper founder Abraham Kuyper . In the following years, Cnossen was promoted to editor-in-chief. From then on, he not only wrote about emigration, but also toured Canada in 1924 and 1929 and was one of the founders of the “Gereformeerde Emigratie Vereeniging” (GEV, Reformed Emigration Association) in 1927. This organization was merged into the "Christelijke Emigratie Centrale" (CEC, Christian Emigration Center) in 1938, which, in contrast to its predecessor, was now cross-denominational. In 1941, during the German occupation in World War II , Colijn resigned in protest after Max Blokzijl , the former German correspondent of the Algemeen Handelsblad , who was now press guard in the Netherlands, was forced to be the newspaper's new editor-in-chief alongside Cnossen. Cnossen inherited Colijn and remained editor-in-chief of Standaard until 1943 at a time when the Dutch press was under the control of the National Socialists. He kept Blokzijl as far away from the newspaper as possible, who then left it again after four months. Finally, in November 1943, Cnossen fell victim to the German edicts when he was dismissed because of a conflict over the adoption of articles and captions and had to give up his post to the art editor H. Burger. The newspaper was discontinued shortly thereafter and after the war voluntarily left the field to the formerly Protestant underground newspaper Trouw .

At first Cnossen became a farmer again. After the war, he received an offer from Jan Bruins Slot, the editor-in-chief of Trouw , to become an employee of his newspaper, but turned it down. Instead, in addition to his membership in the CEC, Cnossen also became director of the “Centrale Stichting Landbouw Emigratie” (CSLE, Central Agricultural Emigration Foundation) founded in 1946. In 1968 his book "Mensen en meningen / journalistieke en politieke herinneringen" was a personal review.

Works

• Dwars door Canada , Drukkerij Holland (Amsterdam), 1927
• Mensen en meningen / journalistieke en politieke herinneringen , Buijten en Schipperheijn (Amsterdam), 1968

Honors

• 1952: Officer of the Order of Orange-Nassau

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Kok, pp. 56-57
2. ↑ Kok, p. 57
3. ^ Bak, p. 215

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Main source

• Portrait on the website of the Stichting Cnossen-Knossen (Dutch)

Other sources

• Peter Bak: De Antirevolutionaire Partij "ondergronds" , in: George Harinck, Roel Kuiper, Peter Bak (eds.): Anti-Revolutionaire Partij 1829–1980 , Verloren, Hilversum 2001, ISBN 90-6550-664-0 (Dutch)
• René Kok: Max Blokzijl: Stem van het nationaal-socialisme , Sijthoff, Amsterdam 1988, ISBN 90-218-0231-7 (Dutch)