Hans van Mierlo

Henricus Antonius Franciscus Maria Oliva ( Hans) van Mierlo ( born August 18, 1931 in Breda, † March 11, 2010 in Amsterdam) was a Dutch politician. He co-founded the left-liberal party Democraten 66 ( D66 ) and became its central figure.

Life

Van Mierlo studied law at the Catholic University of Nijmegen (Nijmegen ) and received his doctorate there in 1960. From 1960 to 1967 he worked as a journalist for the newspaper Algemeen Handelsblad liberal in Amsterdam, first in the domestic editors, then as Head of the opinion page.

In 1966 he was instrumental in the founding of the social-liberal party Democraten 66 and was its first chairman. From 1967 to 1977, from 1986 to 1994 he was a deputy in the Dutch parliament and from 1967 to 1974 and Leader of the Democraten 66 From 1983 to 1986 he belonged to the Senate, the Eerste Kamer of the States-General, to. In addition, he was a member of the Commission for Development Cooperation Netherlands - Surinam and the advisory committee for defense issues.

September 11, 1981 to November 4, 1982, van Mierlo Minister of Defence in the Cabinet Dries van Agt and dated 22 August 1994 to August 3, 1998 Foreign Minister and Deputy Prime Minister in the Cabinet Wim Kok.

In 1998, the honorary rank of Minister of State, he was awarded.

Van Mierlo held various senior positions, especially in literary and cultural organizations. He was married since 2009 to his third marriage with the Dutch writer Connie Palmen, with whom he had previously been romantically involved already for almost 12 years. From his first marriage he has a son, two daughters second. His last wife described in a 2011 erschienenem in the Netherlands diary the last year of living together with the drawn already from serious illness politicians.