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


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 minstership 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 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 minstership 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>

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Folkert Posthuma in 1930

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

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 minstership 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.[1]

See also

References

  1. ^ "F.E. (Folkert) Posthuma" (in Dutch). Parlement & Politiek.
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Preceded by Minister of Agriculture, Industry and Trade
1914–1918 		Succeeded by


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