Joop Bakker
Johannes " Joop " Age Bakker ( born May 21, 1921 in Bolsward, Friesland Province; † 3 October 2003 in Wassenaar, South Holland province ) was a Dutch politician of the Anti- Revolutionaire Partij and the Christians Democratisch Appèl, Vice - Prime Minister and Minister.
Life
After attending a Protestant primary school and the Rijks Hogere Burger School in Sneek stdierte 1941-197 of economics at the Netherlands School of Economics Rotterdam, with a break wg. the Second World War.
After the war, he began his political career in local politics than he. Member of the Municipal Council and as Assistant Secretary in Bolsward
In 1949, he appeared as a co-owner in the company of family YES Bakker en Zoon one, a factory for bakery ingredients in Bolsward, and worked there until 1955. In 1955 he was first mayor of Andijk and subsequently from 1959 to 1963 from Hoogeveen.
Secretary of State and Minister
In 1963 he became Secretary of State for Economic Affairs in the cabinet of Prime Minister Victor Marijnen. A position he took over in the government of Jo Cals and was also responsible for matters of the middle class and for regional industrialization in this until 1966.
In the subsequent government of Prime Minister Jelle Zijlstra Bakker was born on November 22, 1966 Minister of Economic Affairs and has held this post until 1967.
Piet de Jong called him on April 5, 1967 in the Cabinet of Vice - Prime Minister and Minister of Transport and Water Management. At the same time was appointed as a minister with the coordination of matters of Suriname and the Netherlands Antilles, and practiced all the ministers offices until 1971. In the parliamentary elections in 1971 Bakker was a candidate to place the ARP list, and was born on May 11, 1971 Member of the Second Chamber of the States General. In 1972 he resigned his parliamentary seat after he. Chairman of the insurer Algemene Friese, Groot- en Noordhollandsche Olveh The Office of the CEO, he held ten years.