Ernst van der Beugel

Ernst Hans van der Beugel ( born February 2, 1918 in Amsterdam, † 29 September 2004 in The Hague) was a Dutch diplomat, politician, manager and university professor.

Life

He came from a middle-class family in Amsterdam and was the son of Theodor Max van der Beugel (* 1889), the "Villa Georgina " bought around 1920 as a summer home in Zandvoort, and Sophia van Praag ( 1891-1964 ). Beugel closed in 1941 the study of economics at the University of Amsterdam from his doctorate, however, only in 1965 at the University of Leiden. His dissertation had a foreword by Henry Kissinger.

In 1945 Beugel came into the Dutch Ministry of Transport and moved in 1946 to the Ministry of Economy. In 1947 he was secretary and office manager of the Dutch delegation of the Foreign Ministry in the first Marshall Plan conference in Paris. In 1952, he was Executive Director for the Economic and military aid program OEEC. In the years 1957 and 1958 he worked for the Social Democratic Workers' Party as State Secretary for European Integration and Deputy Secretary of State in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the fourth cabinet of Prime Minister Willem Drees, where he was instrumental in the founding and development of the European Economic Community ( EEC). The German diplomat Berndt von Staden wrote in his memoirs about Beugel: " ... to me are the dramatis personae are no longer present when I disregard of the very articulate Dutch State Secretary Ernst van der Beugel, who spoke with the authority of a great power. " 1959 he was Ambassador and special Adviser to the Foreign Ministry. After the death of Joseph Retinger Beugel was 1960-1980 Secretary General of Bilderberg conference.

From 1960 to 1961 he was Vice President, then to 1963, president of the state-owned airline KLM, then director of several companies in the Netherlands, Belgium, Great Britain and the USA, and from 1966 to 1984 professor of international relations at the University of Leiden.

His sister was the journalist and author Ina van der Beugel ( 1914-2003 ).

Awards

  • Cross of Honour of the House Order of Orange
  • Order of the Netherlands Lion
  • Commander of the Order of Orange- Nassau.

Works (selection)

  • Ernst Hans van der Beugel: 65 años, 1918 2 februari 1983 Brill, Leiden 1983.
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