Ynso Scholten
Ynso Scholten (* 1. February 1918 in Amsterdam ; † 13. June 1984 in The Hague ) was a Dutch lawyer and politician of the Christian Historical Union (CHU), the 1959-1963 State Secretary for Art in the Cabinet of Prime Minister Jan de Quay was and in this function introduced a monument law and a new archive law. Between 1963 and 1965 he was Minister of Justice in the cabinet of Prime Minister Victor Marijnen and in this role he not only ensured new legal regulations for gambling, but also the admission of foreigners. He was also hostile to private broadcasting and in 1964 banned the broadcast of pirate TV programs on REM-eiland .
In 1965 Scholten largely left political life, but temporarily worked in 1972 as an advisor to Prime Minister Barend Biesheuvel's cabinet .
Life
Scholten was a son of Paul Scholten , who was professor of law at the University of Amsterdam and briefly from 1945 to 1946 member of the First Chamber of the States General for the Christelijk-Historische Unie (CHU) . After attending a grammar school in Amsterdam in 1936, he began studying law in the Netherlands at the University of Amsterdam, which he graduated from the Free University of Amsterdam in 1942 . After graduation he took in 1942 working as a lawyer in the Amsterdam law firm Van der Feltz & Riechelmann on and was last until 1 July 1959 in Van der Feltz, Voûte, Riechelmann, Scholten, Sluyter en Van Sandick renamed firm a the partner. In addition, he worked between 1943 and May 1944, first employee of the Legal Department of the Chamber of Commerce at Rotterdam .
On June 16, 1959, Prime Minister Jan de Quay appointed Scholten State Secretary in the Ministry of Education, Art and Science in his cabinet and, as such, was responsible for youth education, community development, physical culture, sport, the press, radio until July 24, 1963, TV, art, archeology and conservation. He was thus one of the closest employees of the then Minister for Education, Art and Science Jo Cals and in this function introduced a monument law (Monumentenwet) and a new archive law (Archiefwet) .
In the subsequent government of Prime Minister Victor Marijnen, Scholten took over the office of Minister of Justice (Minister van Justitie) on July 24, 1963 and held this position until April 14, 1965. In this position, he not only ensured new legal regulations for gambling, but also with the admission of foreigners. He was also hostile to private broadcasting and in 1964 banned the broadcast of pirate TV programs on REM-eiland.
For his political services he was appointed Commander of the Order of Orange-Nassau on April 27, 1965 .
After leaving the cabinet, he largely withdrew from political life and became a partner in the Hague-based law firm De Brauw en Helbach . Scholten, who joined the Christelijk-Historische Unie (CHU) as a member in 1959, took over the chairmanship of the party-internal commission of inquiry into the defeat in the elections as well as a party commission for cooperation between the CHU and the Anti-Revolutionaire Partij (ARP) and the Katholieke Volkspartij (KVP). In addition, he was a member of the CHU Unity Council until 1980.
His marriage to Petronella Anna Baroness van Asbeck on May 6, 1943 resulted in a son and three daughters, including the lawyer Marijke Scholten , who was a member of the First Chamber of the States General between 2011 and 2015 as a representative of Democrats 66 (D66).
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| SURNAME | Scholten, Ynso |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Dutch politician and lawyer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 1, 1918 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Amsterdam |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 13, 1984 |
| Place of death | The hague |