Anthonie van der Heim

Anthonie van called the home or Antonius van Home, ( born November 28, 1693 The Hague, † July 16, 1746 in 's- Hertogenbosch ) was between the years 1737 and 1746 Grand Pensionary of the States of Holland and West Friesland.

Career

Anthonie was a descendant of the family of Van Home. His uncle was the politician and Grand Pensionary Anthonie Heinsius. Between the years 1709 and 1711 studied Van Home 's Rights at the University of Leiden. In 1727 he followed Simon van Slingelandt which Pensionary was, as a kind of finance ( reinvested generaal ) in the Republic of the United Netherlands from. In December of 1736 between Johan Hendrik van Wassenaer - Obdam (Head of the Knighthood of Holland), Lieve Geelvinck was decided ( reigning mayor of Amsterdam) and François Teresteijn van Halewijn ( reigning mayor of Dordrecht ) a secret agreement, which Van Home as new Grand Pensionary installed.

One of the most serious problems on the part of Van der Heim reign was the inability of the Dutch city of Regents to organize public finances and reduce debt. Various tests, such as a new tax could not arrange this.

Van Home was described by his contemporaries as a politically indecisive and not assertive person. Another case made ​​from the foreign policy problems with France and England and the Austrian War of Succession. Van der home health suffered from these problems, so he stayed in 1746 at a spa in the spa. While Van der Heim absence led Willem Buys the highest government official in Holland. After a heart attack, which he could not survive, Gilles Jacob was installed as the new Grand Pensionary.

Private

Anthonie van der home lived in a townhouse in the Lange Voorhout in The Hague, and had a country house in Rijswijk.

He was married to Catharina van der Waeyen ( 1694-1763 ). From this marriage produced two daughters:

  • Catharina van Home (1729-1771), married to the Baron Jacob Arent van Wassenaar van Duvenvoorde (1721-1767)
  • Herber Tina van Home (1731-1798), married to the Baron Gerlach Jan van der Does ( 1732-1810 ).
West Friesland (region) Spa, Belgium Jacob Gilles House of Wassenaer County of Holland Seventeen Provinces Aert van der Goes Paulus Buys Andries de Witt Anthonie Duyck Jacob Cats Adriaan Pauw Gaspar Fagel Michiel ten Hove Isaac van Hoornbeek Pieter Steyn Rutger Jan Schimmelpenninck
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