Teun Struycken

Antoon " Teun " Arnold Marie Struycken (* December 27, 1906 in Breda, North Brabant, † December 1, 1977 in The Hague) was a Dutch politician of the Roomsch - Katholieke Staatspartij ( RKSP ) and later the Katholieke Volkspartij (CIP), the temporarily Deputy Prime Minister and was several times minister and about 17 years a member of the Council of State ( Raad van State ) was.

Life

Lawyer and local politician

Struycken completed after the visit of Roman Catholic High School Onze Lieve Vrouwe Lyceum in Breda and the school Augustinianum in Eindhoven studying law at the Katholieke Universiteit Nijmegen, which he completed in 1932. He then took until 1950 for a career as a lawyer in Breda.

In addition Struycken began his political career in local politics and took on 3 September 1935 to September 1, 1941, the interests of the Roomsch - Katholieke Staatspartij ( RKSP ) as a member of the city council of Breda. During this time, he was from 1935 to 1938 and Chairman of the Group of RKSP. In addition, he was between 4 July 1939 and the September 1, 1941 member of the Provinciale Staten of the Province of North Brabant and September 5, 1939 to November 15, 1941 Assistant Secretary ( Wethouder ) of Breda.

During the occupation of the Netherlands by the German Wehrmacht Struycken lost his political offices and worked since 1941 as head of the social services of the company Hollandse Kunstzijde industry in Breda, before he was interned from May 1942 and January 1944 at the detention Beekvliet in Sint- Michielsgestel. During this time he was also a member of the Advisory Board of the internees.

After his release, he served from November 1944 to July 1950 again as Assistant of Breda, where he was responsible for finance and utilities, and shortly thereafter also for refugees and displaced persons. In 1945, he was also Vice - Mayor and between November 1945 and September 2, 1946, a member of the Provisional Municipal Council before he was on 2 September 1946 to 10 July in 1950 a member of the city council of Breda. At the same time he was between August 1945 and July 1950 Board Member of the Center for Civic Education ( Centrum voor State Competent Vorming ), the Scientific Institute of the CIP, and in 1948 chairman of the Commission for the party law.

Minister

On July 10, 1950 Struycken that since 1945 a member of the Katholieke Volkspartij (CIP), Prime Minister Willem Drees justice minister (Minister van Justitie ) appointed and held this function in the Cabinet Drees / Van Schaik until 15 March 1951. For his merit was awarded to him on April 3, 1951, the Knight's Cross of the Order of the Netherlands lion. He then served from 13 April 1951 to October 1956 as Governor of the Netherlands Antilles.

Then appointed Prime Minister Drees him vice - Prime Minister and Minister of the Interior, capital formation and public business organization (Minister van Binnenlandse Zaken, Bezitsvorming s Publiekrechtelijke Bedrijfsorganisatie ) third in his cabinet and held these offices also in the formed of Drees ' successor Louis Beel second Government of 22 December 1958 to 19 May 1959. at the same time he took over December 22, 1958 to May 19, 1959 interim basis the Office of the Minister of Justice. On 9 June 1959, this appointment was made Grand Officer of the Order of Orange -Nassau.

After retiring from the Cabinet Struycken was on November 1, 1959 Member of the Council of State ( Raad van State ) and was appointed this constitutional body to advise the government until 22 November 1966. In addition, he was on 1 January 1962 Member of the Board of Hollandse Bank Unie ( HBU ).

On November 22, 1966, he took over again the post of Minister of Justice, this time in the area formed by Prime Minister Jelle Zijlstra cabinet, where he remained until the end of Zijlstras term of office on April 5, 1967. After leaving the government, he was appointed on April 12, 1967 again a member of the Raad van State and was part of this until his death. He was also a member of the 1967 Trustees of the Catholic University of Tilburg.

His uncle Anthony Alexis was Hendricus 1914-1923 also a member of the Raad van State and longtime university teacher of constitutional and international law and universal political science at the University of Amsterdam.