Wil Albeda

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Wil Albeda (1977)

Willem "Wil" Albeda (* 13. June 1925 in Rotterdam , † 6. May 2014 in Maastricht ) one was Dutch trade union functionary , professors and politicians of the Anti-Revolutionary Party (ARP), and later the Christian Democratic Appeal (CDA), the Member of the First Chamber of the States General and Minister of Social Affairs between 1977 and 1981.

Life

School education, World War II and studies

After attending elementary school from 1937 to 1940, Albeda completed an extended elementary education at the AWF Idenburgschool in Rotterdam and, after the entrance examination, between 1940 and 1943, another school education at the Christelijke Hogere Burgeschool . After a raid by the German occupation forces in 1943, he was deported to Oberhausen for forced labor . After his liberation he worked temporarily as an interpreter for the Allied troops in Germany between March and May 1945 .

After the end of the Second World War , he worked for a month in the sales tax department of the Rotterdam tax authorities for a month and then until November 1945 in the department for the release of funds in a branch of De Nederlandsche Bank (DNB).

He then began to study economics at the Rotterdam School of Economics in April 1946 , which he completed on December 8, 1950. In addition to his studies, he worked part-time from April 1948 to 1951 at the Dutch economic institute NEI (Nederlands Economisch Instituut) .

Union worker, doctorate and university professor in Rotterdam

He then worked from September 1, 1951 to January 1, 1960 economic adviser to the Christian Union of Wood and Construction Workers NCB (Nederlandse Christelijke Bond van Werknemers in Hout en Bouw) .

On February 22, 1957, Albeda did his doctorate at the Free University of Amsterdam with a dissertation on the role of trade unions in modern society with the title De rol van de vakbewegunging in de moderne maatschappij . After finishing his work for the NCB he was on January 1, 1960 employees in the social division of Philips - light bulb factory in Eindhoven , where he is until November 1, 1961 with the new investigation factories concerned.

On November 1, 1961, he resumed work as a union employee, and was now until September 1, 1966 Secretary for International Affairs, Socio-Economic Issues and Training and Education of the Christian National Trade Union Confederation CNV ( Christelijk Vakverbond ) .

After that, Albeda accepted on September 1, 1966 the call to a professorship for socio-economics at the Dutch business school. At the university, renamed Erasmus University Rotterdam in 1973, he taught until December 19, 1977, most recently since 1973 as an associate professor for labor law at the company institute, an inter-university institution of the Erasmus University and the Delft University of Technology . In addition to his teaching activities, he has also written numerous specialist books on economic and socio-political topics.

Member of the First Chamber and Minister of Social Affairs

In addition to his teaching activities, Albeda became a representative of the Anti-Revolutionaire Partij (ARP) on September 20, 1966, a member of the First Chamber of the States General and was a member of this until December 19, 1977. During this time he was there from June 18, 1973 to June 10, 1977 also chairman of the ARP parliamentary group . For his services he was awarded the Knight's Cross of the Order of the Dutch Lion on April 29, 1977 .

On December 19, 1977, Albeda was appointed Minister for Social Affairs (Minister van Sociale Zaken) by Prime Minister Dries van Agt in his first cabinet and held this ministerial office until September 11, 1981. The subsequent grand coalition of CDA, Partij van de Arbeid (PvdA) and Democrats 66 (D66) in van Agt's second cabinet , he was no longer a member. The office of Minister of Social Affairs was taken over as his successor by Joop den Uyl , the chairman of the PvdA, who was also Vice-Prime Minister, Minister of Labor and Minister for the Netherlands Antilles .

Shortly before leaving the government, on June 30, 1981, he again became a member of the First Chamber of the States General and represented the CDA there until September 13, 1983. On October 26, 1981, he was also commander of the Order of Orange-Nassau .

University professor in Maastricht and Utrecht and chairman of the WRR

On August 1, 1982, Albeda accepted an extraordinary professorship for socio-economics at the University of Limburg in Maastricht , where she last taught between September 1, 1985 and July 1, 1995 as an endowed professor .

In addition to his teaching activities, from August 1, 1982 to 1983, he was also dean of the economics department at the University of Limburg and later from September 1, 1985 to June 1, 1990, chairman of the Scientific Council for Government Policy WRR (Wetenschappelijke Raad voor het Regeringsbeleid) , a Dutch government think tank .

In addition, from May 1, 1990 to April 1, 1993, Albeda was Professor of Socio-Economics at the University of Utrecht , where he initially held the Belle van Zuylen professorship from May to September 1993 . On June 12, 1990 he was also appointed Grand Officer of the Order of Orange-Nassau.

Publications

  • De rol van de vakbewegunging in de moderne maatschappij (dissertation, 1957)
  • Grandchildren's problems of central economisch insult (1966)
  • Vak Moving en onderneming (1971)
  • Sociaal-economisch insult en economische orde (1971)
  • Vak Moving en maatschappijstructuur (1972)
  • Arbeidsverhoudingen in Nederland (1975)
  • Participatie, arbeid en maatschappij (1976)
  • De crisis van de werksitzheid en de verzorgingsstaat (1984)
  • Ik en de verzorgingsstaat. Herinneringen van Wil Albeda (Memoirs, edited by R. Bouwman en M. van den Toorn, 2004)
in German language
  • The trade unions in society , Stuttgart 1958
  • The disabled and their professional life: a report , ISBN 92-825-5333-7 , Cologne 1985
  • The implementation of basic economic policy concepts in continental European practice of the 19th and 20th centuries , editor Erich W. Streissler, part 2, ISBN 3-428-09610-X , Berlin 1998

Background literature

  • J. Tromp, P. Witteman: Waar de fold vallen. De crisis en het antwoord van Albeda (1981)

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personal data
SURNAME Albeda, Wil
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Albeda, Willem (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Dutch politician, economist and university lecturer (ARP, CDA)
DATE OF BIRTH June 13, 1925
PLACE OF BIRTH Rotterdam
DATE OF DEATH May 6, 2014
Place of death Maastricht