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[[File:Folkert Posthuma (1930).jpg|thumb|175px|Folkert Posthuma in 1930]]
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''' Folkert Evert Posthuma''' (20 May 1874, [[Leeuwarden]] – 3 June 1943, [[Vorden]]) was a Dutch [[politician]].
'''Folkert Evert Posthuma''' (20 May 1874, [[Leeuwarden]] – 3 June 1943, [[Vorden]]) was a Dutch politician.


==Biography==
During the first World War he was the Minister of Agriculture, Industry and Trade in the government of [[Cort van der Linden]] and as such responsible for the food distribution. Before and after his ministership he held a senior management position at the insurance company [[Centraal Beheer]]. In the 1930s he became a sympathiser, but not a member, of the [[National Socialist Movement in the Netherlands|NSB]]. In 1943 he was asked by NSB leader [[Anton Mussert]] to become his representative for agriculture but was assassinated later that year by the [[Dutch resistance]].<ref>{{cite web|title=F.E. (Folkert) Posthuma|url=https://www.parlement.com/id/vg09lljev8xk/f_e_folkert_posthuma|publisher=Parlement & Politiek|language=Dutch}}</ref>
During [[World War I]], he was the Minister of Agriculture, Industry and Trade in the government of [[Cort van der Linden]] and as such responsible for the food distribution. Before and after his ministership he held a senior management position at the insurance company [[Centraal Beheer]]. In the 1930s he became a sympathiser, but not a member, of the [[National Socialist Movement in the Netherlands|NSB]]. In 1943 he was asked by NSB leader [[Anton Mussert]] to become his representative for agriculture but was assassinated later that year by the [[Dutch resistance]] and communist Jan Verleun.<ref>{{cite web|title=F.E. (Folkert) Posthuma|url=https://www.parlement.com/id/vg09lljev8xk/f_e_folkert_posthuma|publisher=Parlement & Politiek|language=Dutch}}</ref>

==See also==
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*[[List of Dutch politicians]]


==References==
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Latest revision as of 19:27, 3 October 2024

Folkert Posthuma in 1930

Folkert Evert Posthuma (20 May 1874, Leeuwarden – 3 June 1943, Vorden) was a Dutch politician.

Biography

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During World War I, he was the Minister of Agriculture, Industry and Trade in the government of Cort van der Linden and as such responsible for the food distribution. Before and after his ministership he held a senior management position at the insurance company Centraal Beheer. In the 1930s he became a sympathiser, but not a member, of the NSB. In 1943 he was asked by NSB leader Anton Mussert to become his representative for agriculture but was assassinated later that year by the Dutch resistance and communist Jan Verleun.[1]

References

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  1. ^ "F.E. (Folkert) Posthuma" (in Dutch). Parlement & Politiek.
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