Joop den Uyl
John Marten ( Joop ) ( born 9 August 1919 in Hilversum, † December 24, 1987 in Amsterdam) den Uyl was a Dutch politician and Prime Minister 1973-1977 and 1967-1986 Chairman of the Partij van de Arbeid ( PvdA).
Life
Den Uyl was raised in a strict Protestant family. His father John died when Den Uyl was ten years old. From 1931 to 1936 he attended the Christian Lyceum in Hilversum, followed by a national economic study followed on from the University of Amsterdam. In 1942 he resigned his final exam in Economics from there, earning the " Doctorandus " title. Between 1943 and 1945 he was in the Empire office for price monitoring chemical products in the Dutch Ministry of Economic Affairs. After the Second World War, he became a journalist at the newspaper Het Parool Vrij Nederland and. A short time he was in the party ARP conservative anti- revolutionaries. As of January 1949, Den Uyl director of Wiardi Beckman Foundation, the scientific institute of the PvdA. Between 1953 and 1965 he was a City Council member from Amsterdam, where he was Assistant Secretary of the City of Amsterdam 1962-1965.
From 1956 Den Uyl was a member of the Tweede Kamer of the Dutch Parliament. Between 1965 and 1966 he was for a brief period of economic minister of his country, in which it decided the closure of the coal mines in Limburg. When his party went into opposition in 1967, Den Uyl was leader of the PvdA in the Tweede Kamer of Parliament until 1973 and made effective for the cohesion of his party. In November 1972, he was the elections for his party very successful and increased its strength from 39 to 43 seats in the 150- member parliament.
Between May 1973 and 1977 Den Uyl held the office of prime minister of a coalition government of left-wing parties and the Catholic People's Party CIP, which replaced the Minderheitstregierung by Barend Willem Biesheuvel. He was the first Social Democratic Prime Minister of the Netherlands since 1958. His foreign minister was Max van der Stoel of the PvdA. In this period he was confronted with the oil boycott by the OPEC countries as a result of the Dutch position in the Yom Kippur War. He proved himself as a skilled crisis manager. The ratio between its Minister of Justice and Deputy Dries van Agt from the CIP and he was always tense. At this alienation was the acting Minister of Justice at the Menten affair.
In the elections of 25 May 1977, the Labour Party won 33.8 % of the vote their best result was the strongest party and went with 53 of the 150 seats as the strongest party in parliament. However, they did not reach into the government: After 208 days of arduous negotiations fell through a coalition with the new Christians Democratisch Appèl (CDA ), the Dries van Agt from the CIP and two Protestant parties formed, with the liberal Volkspartij voor Vrijheid en Démocratie ( PVVD ), a new coalition was formed. Under The Uyls line, the PvdA was 1977-1981 unconditional opposition to which an interim period in the years 1981-1982 joined in the CDA, PvdA and progressive liberal democrats 66, a coalition government headed by Dries van Agt with Joop den Uyl as his deputy and Minister of Social Affairs formed. After eight months, the PvdA ministers resigned from in May 1982 from the Cabinet Van Agt. From the early elections of September 8, 1982 His party was indeed the strongest out, but the new government formation failed. Den Uyl was again Leader of the Labour Party until 1986. Between 1980 and 1987 Den Uyl was chairman of the European Socialists CSPEC.
From March 1980 to May 1987 Joop den Uyl was also Party Chairman of the Union of Socialist Parties of the European Community.
Person
Den Uyl was described as reformist, pragmatic social democratic politician who is committed to his party effectively and decisively, but knew how to convey sent in heterogeneous coalitions. Ome Joop had in his party's large following. He was characterized as idealistic, but also as a mediator rather than polarizing.
Critical responsibility for a high national debt was seen in him. The national debt rose in the Netherlands, as in other States, in the 70 years significantly. Subsequent governments took first to combat the national debt no attempts. Later large savings were necessary because of the debt.
1985 " uit de Doctorandus Buitenveldert " was honored by his University in Amsterdam with an honorary doctorate.
Joop den Uyl was married to Liesbeth den Uyl. They had three sons and four daughters. His daughter Saskia Noorman - den Uyl 's Group Member of the PvdA in the Tweede Kamer.
Christmas Eve Joop den Uyl died in 1987 of a brain tumor.