Nicolaas Johannes Diederichs

Nicolaas Johannes Diederichs ( born November 17 1903 in Ladybrand, Orange Free State; † August 21, 1978 in Pretoria) was a South African politician and president.

Life

Diederichs doctorate after his studies at the University of Leiden. With the return to South Africa his appointment was Professor of Political Science at the Universiteit van which Vrystaat. As a result of his stay in Europe formed itself in his enthusiasm for the burgeoning nationalism there and for the Third Reich. During the 1930s and 1940s, Diederichs committed in circles Afrikaner nationalists. His publications are evidence of radical viewpoints, where he joined the interests of the Boers with positions of Calvinism Dutch stamping. The most important work in this regard is the 1936 published in Bloemfontein font Nasionalisme as Lewens beskouing en sy verhouding dead internasionalisme ( about German nationalism as a worldview and its relationship to internationalism ).

In 1939 he performed at the People's Economic Congress. As a result, Diederichs was a founding member and chairman of a newly created afrikaanischen Association, the Reddingsdaadbond who pursued nationalist- economic goals under the impression of marked global Great Depression in South Africa. Furthermore, Diederichs took over the chairmanship of the Afrikanse Nasionale Studentebond (ANS ) and directed the Ekonomiese Instituut van Afrikaanse Federasie Kultuurvereniginge ( FAK). From 1938 to 1942 he held the chair of the influential African Broederbond.

This development led to the rise of Nasionale Party, the one already before emerging apartheid policies fully enforced after its election victory in 1948. Diederichs 1958 appointed Minister of Economic Affairs and eventually won as Minister of Finance ( 1967-1975 ) clearly influence. He was then President of South Africa, his term of office began on April 19, 1975 and ended with his death on 21 August 1978.

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  • Nicolaas Johannes Diederichs, South Africa's fourth state president, is born. on www.sahistory.org.za (English)

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  • President ( South Africa)
  • Minister of Finance (South Africa)
  • Apartheid
  • South Africans
  • Born in 1903
  • Died in 1978
  • Man
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