Charles Ruijs de Beerenbrouck

Charles de Ruijs Beerenbrouck ( born December 1, 1873 in Roermond, † April 17, 1936 in Utrecht) was from 1918 to 1925 and from 1929 to 1933 Dutch Interior Minister and Prime Minister.

Beerenbroucks father was justice minister in the cabinet of Prime Minister Mackay and governor of Limburg.

Beerenbrouck studied law at Leiden University and received his doctorate in 1895. He was a member of the Student Union Augustine and active in several Catholic societies. He also became involved in the fight against alcoholism.

When he took office in 1918 the Prime Minister, he was the youngest until then and also the first Catholic prime minister of the Netherlands.

In 1927, the honorary title of Minister of State, he was awarded.

Limburg (Netherlands) Minister of State (Netherlands) Gerrit Schimmelpenninck Dirk Donker Curtius Jacob de Kempenaer Johan Rudolph Thorbecke Floris Adriaan van Hall Justinus van der Brugghen Julius van Zuylen van Nijevelt Pieter Philip van Bosse Gerrit de Vries (politician) Jan Heemskerk Theo van Lynden van Sandenburg Gijsbert van Tienhoven Nicolaas Pierson Abraham Kuyper Theo Heemskerk Dirk Jan de Geer Pieter Sjoerds Gerbrandy Wim Schermerhorn Louis Beel Willem Drees Jan de Quay Jo Cals Jelle Zijlstra Piet de Jong Barend Biesheuvel Ruud Lubbers Wim Kok Mark Rutte Gijsbert Karel van Hogendorp Willem Anne Schimmelpenninck van der Oye Leonardus Antonius Lightenvelt Jan Karel van Goltstein Herman Adriaan van Karnebeek Andries Cornelis Dirk de Graeff Dirk Stikker Joseph Luns Norbert Schmelzer Max van der Stoel Chris van der Klaauw Hans van den Broek Hans van Mierlo Ben Bot Maxime Verhagen Uri Rosenthal Frans Timmermans Alexander Willem Frederik Idenburg Dirk Fock Hubertus van Mook Integrated Authority File
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