Jan Heemskerk

Jan Heemskerk Azn. ( Born July 30, 1818 in Amsterdam, † October 9, 1897 in The Hague) was a liberal, conservative later Dutch statesman. 1874-1877 and 1883-1888 he was Chairman of the Council of Ministers.

Life

After a grammar school education at the Atheneum Illustre in Amsterdam, he studied at the University of Utrecht Law and Literature and completed both subjects in 1839 with a doctorate from. He then became a lawyer in Amsterdam.

Heemskerk began his political career as a liberal, ended up being the leader of the moderate conservative party in the Second Chamber of the States General, and was 1866-1868 Minister of the Interior, but had to because of that of the Cabinet van Zuylen van Nijevelt in the Luxembourg crisis followed policies cede. He was a member of the Supreme Court thereon. In 1874 he was Interior Minister and chairman of the Council of Ministers until 1877, he received the chased dismissal. He developed during his first ministry significant administrative skills, and his opponents, he joined always opposed with quick-witted dialectic. During his second ministry he managed the law on higher education. 1883-1888 he was again Minister of the Interior and Chief of Cabinet. Even after the election victory of the Liberals in 1886 Heemskerk remained at the head of the government and began a sweeping constitutional reform. After retiring in 1888, he declined an elevation to the peerage.

1885, the honorary title of Minister of State, he was awarded.

His political style is described as pragmatic, his living was always more conservative over time. He mated quiet prudence with mild humor.

In literary terms, he went through several excellent biographies of Dutch scholars and statesmen, as well as through various legal treatises a name, of which particularly the witness on the Bill of Rights relating the deep study of how the extraordinary sharpness of the judgment.