Folkert Posthuma
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Folkert Evert Posthuma (20 May 1874, Leeuwarden – 3 June 1943, Vorden) was a Dutch politician.
Biography
[edit]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
[edit]- ^ "F.E. (Folkert) Posthuma" (in Dutch). Parlement & Politiek.
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- 1874 births
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- Ministers of economic affairs of the Netherlands
- Ministers of agriculture of the Netherlands
- Assassinated Dutch politicians
- Dutch agronomists
- Politicians from Leeuwarden
- Wageningen University and Research alumni
- Executed Dutch collaborators with Nazi Germany
- Nazis assassinated by the Dutch resistance
- People murdered in the Netherlands
- Politicians assassinated in the 1940s
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