Hendrik Koekoek

Hendrik Koekoek ( May 22nd 1912 in Hollandscheveld; † February 8, 1987 in Bennekom ) was a Dutch farmer and politician. For co-founded by his right-wing protest party Boerenpartij Koekoek boer ( farmer cuckoo ) sat from 1963 to 1981 in the Second Chamber of the Dutch Parliament.

Koekoek originally belonged to the conservative Christian Christelijk - Historic Unie ( CHU ) and was in the elections 1956 ( unsuccessful ) top candidate of the Nederlandse Unie Oppositie. With the Boerenpartij he succeeded in 1963 in the chamber, 1967, the culmination of seven members was reached. The other parliamentary parties were the Boerenpartij against very dismissive. Finally, the party was only a deputy, Koekoek represented. At his death in 1987, the former member of Parliament Koekoek was not remembered in the chamber. Koekoek sat for some time in the Provinciale Staten of Gelderland and the council of Ede.

In the wake of the oil crisis Koekoek took Vader a satirical song, sung in an old folk song. Den Uyl is in the olie with a refrain, according to the Social Democratic Prime Minister Joop den Uyl was drunk and " one on the lid gets " came in February 1974 to first place in the Dutch charts. The carnival song made ​​Koekoek who sang part of the chorus, with 61 years to the oldest chart-topping of the country.

Since 1942, Koekoek was married to Theodora Geertruida van Zetten. His brother in law Jan de Groote was for Boerenpartij deputy in the First Chamber.