Victor Marijnen

Victor Marijnen


40th Prime Minister of the Netherlands
In office 24 July 1963 – 14 April 1965
Monarch	Juliana
Deputy	Barend Biesheuvel
Preceded by	Jan de Quay
Succeeded by	Jo Cals
Mayor of The Hague
In office 16 October 1968 – 5 April 1975
Preceded by	Hans Kolfschoten
Succeeded by	Frans Schols
Member of the House of Representatives of the Netherlands
In office 27 April 1965 – 14 January 1966
In office 2 July 1963 – 24 July 1963
Minister of Social Affairs and Health of the Netherlands
In office 3 July 1961 – 17 July 1961
Prime Minister	Jan de Quay
Preceded by	Charles van Rooy
Succeeded by	Gerard Veldkamp
Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries of the Netherlands
In office 19 May 1959 – 24 July 1963
Prime Minister	Jan de Quay
Preceded by	Cornelis Staf
Succeeded by	Barend Biesheuvel
Personal details
Born	Victor Gerard Marie Marijnen (1917-02-21)21 February 1917 Arnhem, Netherlands
Died	5 April 1975(1975-04-05) (aged 58) The Hague, Netherlands
Nationality	Dutch
Political party	Catholic People's Party
Spouse(s)	Mini Schreurs (m. 1944-1975; his death)
Children	4 sons and 2 daughters
Alma mater	Radboud University Nijmegen (Master of Laws)
Occupation	Politician Civil servant
Religion	Roman Catholicism

Victor Gerard Marie "Vic" Marijnen (21 February 1917 – 5 April 1975) was a Dutch politician of the defunct Catholic People's Party (KVP) now merged into the Christian Democratic Appeal (CDA). He served as Prime Minister of the Netherlands from 24 July 1963 until 14 April 1965.

Marijnen a Civil servant by occupation, he worked for the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries from 1941 until 1957. Marijnen became General-Secretary of the Roman Catholic employers' organizations in the Netherlands in 1957. Marijnen was asked to become Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries after the Dutch general election of 1959 in the Cabinet De Quay under Prime Minister Jan de Quay of his own party. Marijnen took office as the Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries on 19 May 1959. Marijnen served as acting Minister of Social Affairs and Health from 3 July 1961 until 17 July 1961 following the resignation of Charles van Rooy. He served a short period as a Member of the House of Representatives from 2 July 1963 until 24 July 1963. After the Dutch general election of 1963, Marijnen became Prime Minister of the Netherlands, leading the Cabinet Marijnen.

After his premiership, Marijnen remained in active politics and became again a Member of the House of Representatives from 27 April 1965 until 14 January 1966. He later became Mayor of The Hague serving from 16 October 1968 until his death from a heart attack on 5 April 1975.^[1]

Biography

Early life

Victor Gerard Marie Marijnen was born in Arnhem on 21 February 1917. In 1941 he graduated in law from the Radboud University Nijmegen and went on to work in the accountancy divisions of the Ministry of Agriculture, Nature and Food Quality. In 1945 he was seconded to the Council for the Restitution of Legal Rights.

In 1949 Marijnen became secretary of the Agricultural Society and in 1951 Secretary-General of the Foreign Agricultural Trade Department of the Ministry of Agriculture, Nature and Food Quality. From 1957 he was secretary of the General Catholic Employers Association and the Catholic Federation of Employers Associations.

Accusations regarding paedophile priests

In 1956 Marijnen was chairman of a children's home in Gelderland where children, including Henk Heithuis, were sexually abused by priests. According to the Telegraph newspaper, reporting in March 2012, he "intervened to have prison sentences dropped against several priests convicted of abusing children."^[2] The Dutch Catholic Church organised the castration of Heithuis while he lived at the Gelderland children's home in 1956 after he reported being sexually abused to the police.^[2]

Politics

During the Cabinet De Quay, Marijnen was Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries. He served as Prime Minister of the Netherlands from 24 July 1963 until 14 April 1965.

From 1965 to 1966 Marijnen was a member of the House of Representatives and concurrently chairman of the Board of the Rijnmond Authority. In 1967 he was also appointed chairman of the Post and Telecommunications Council. On 16 October 1968 he was selected Mayor of The Hague.

Marijnen died on 5 April 1975 in The Hague, while serving as Mayor from a heart attack at the age of fifty-eight.

Decorations

Ribbon bar	Honour	Date & Comment
National honours
	Grand Officer of the Order of Orange-Nassau	20 April 1965

References

↑ (Dutch) Marijnen, Victor Gerard Marie (1917-1975) Resources Huygens ING, 12 November 2013
1 2 "Dutch Roman Catholic Church 'castrated at least 10 boys'". Telegraph. Retrieved March 19, 2012.

External links

Official

(Dutch) Mr. V.G.M. (Victor) Marijnen Parlement & Politiek
(Dutch) Kabinet-Marijnen Rijksoverheid

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Government offices
Preceded by Cornelis Staf	Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries of the Netherlands 1959–1963	Succeeded by Barend Biesheuvel
Preceded by Charles van Rooy	Minister of Social Affairs and Health of the Netherlands 1961	Succeeded by Gerard Veldkamp
Preceded by Jan de Quay	Minister of General Affairs of the Netherlands 1963–1965	Succeeded by Jo Cals
Political offices
Preceded by Jan de Quay	Prime Minister of the Netherlands 1963–1965	Succeeded by Jo Cals
Preceded by Hans Kolfschoten	Mayor of The Hague 1968–1975	Succeeded by Frans Schols

Prime Ministers of the Netherlands

Schimmelpenninck De Kempenaer Thorbecke Van Hall Van der Brugghen Rochussen Van Hall Ja. Van Zuylen van Nijevelt Van Heemstra Thorbecke Fransen van de Putte Ju. Van Zuylen van Nijevelt Van Bosse Thorbecke De Vries J. Heemskerk Kappeyne van de Coppello Van Lynden van Sandenburg J. Heemskerk Mackay Van Tienhoven Roëll Pierson Kuyper De Meester T. Heemskerk Cort van der Linden Ruijs de Beerenbrouck Colijn De Geer Ruijs de Beerenbrouck Colijn De Geer Gerbrandy Schermerhorn Beel Drees Beel De Quay Marijnen Cals Zijlstra De Jong Biesheuvel Den Uyl Van Agt Lubbers Kok Balkenende Rutte

Ministers of Health of the Netherlands

Ministry of Health, Welfare and Sport

Joekes Suurhoff Beel Van Rooy Marijnen Veldkamp Roolvink Stuyt Vorrink Ginjaar Gardeniers-Berendsen Brinkman d'Ancona Borst Bomhoff De Geus Hoogervorst Klink Schippers

Ministers of Social Affairs of the Netherlands

Ministry of Social Affairs and Employment

Aalberse Koolen Slotemaker de Bruine Verschuur Slotemaker de Bruine Slingenberg Romme Damme Van den Tempel Wijffels Drees Joekes Suurhoff Beel Van Rooy Marijnen Veldkamp Roolvink Boersma Albeda Den Uyl De Graaf De Koning De Graaf De Koning B. De Vries Melkert K. De Vries Vermeend De Geus Donner Kamp Asscher

Ministers of Agriculture of the Netherlands

Ministry of Agriculture, Nature and Food Quality

Mansholt Staf Vondeling Staf Marijnen Biesheuvel Lardinois Boersma Brouwer Van der Stee Braks De Koning Braks De Vries Bukman Van Aartsen Apotheker Brinkhorst Veerman Verburg Verhagen

De Quay cabinet (1959–1963)

^{Preceded: Second Beel cabinet · Succeed: Marijnen cabinet}

Prime Minister	Jan de Quay General Affairs

Deputy Prime Ministers	Henk Korthals Transport, Public Works and Water Management and Surinamese and Netherlands Antilles Affairs

Ministers	Edzo Toxopeus Interior Joseph Luns Foreign Affairs Jelle Zijlstra Finance Albert Christiaan Willem Beerman Justice Jan Willem de Pous Economic Affairs Sidney J. van den Bergh Defence) (1959 Jan de Quay Defence) (Acting Sim Visser Defence) (from 1959 Charles van Rooy Social Affairs and Health) (1959–1961 Victor Marijnen Social Affairs and Health) (Acting Gerard Veldkamp Social Affairs and Health) (from 1961 Jo Cals Education and Science Victor Marijnen Agriculture and Fisheries Jan van Aartsen Housing and Spatial Planning Marga Klompé Social work

State Secretaries	Norbert Schmelzer General Affairs Theo Bot Interior Hans van Houten Foreign Affairs Willem Hendrik van den Berge Finance Gerard Veldkamp Economic Affairs) (1959–1961 Frans Gijzels Economic Affairs) (1961–1963 Michael Calmeyer Defence Piet de Jong Defence Bauke Roolvink Social Affairs and Health Ynso Scholten Education and Science Gerard Stubenrouch Education and Science) (1959–1962) († Hendrik Janssen Education and Science) (1962–1963 Eddie Stijkel Transport, Public Works and Water Management

Authority control	WorldCat Identities VIAF: 290647825 BPN: 08051452

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