Carel Gerretson

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Carel Gerretson
Gerretson in 1939
Personal details
Born
Frederik Carel Gerretson

(1884-02-09)9 February 1884
Kralingen, Netherlands
Died27 October 1958(1958-10-27) (aged 74)
Utrecht, Netherlands
Political party
Alma mater

Doctor Frederik Carel Gerretson (born

Utrecht
, 27 October 1958) was a Dutch writer, essayist, historian, and politician.

Early years

Gerretson was educated in a public elementary school in

University of Heidelberg.[1]

Academic career

Gerretson was a professor of colonial history at the

Dutch colonial experience, especially in the Dutch East Indies. In this area he was involved in a noted academic dispute with the historian Annie Romein-Verschoor over the personality of Jan Pieterszoon Coen. Being a Marxist, Romein-Verschoor characterized Coen as an imperialist. Gerretson, a staunch nationalist and supporter of the empire, argued that Coen should be praised. Gerretson suggested that Coen was not widely appreciated because the Dutch people tend to avoid cult of personality.[2]

Gerretson also published books on a number of books on the

Algemeen Handelsblad and numerous others.[1]

Using the pseudonym Geerten Gossaert, Gerretson also became noted as a poet with his work De moeder receiving regular reprints. He also published works under the name Arthur Lawick.[5]

Political career

Gerretson's nationalist principles led him to politics and he initially was associated with the

extreme right spearheaded by Alfred Haighton, although Gerretson proved a divisive leader as he clashed frequently with Jan Baars. As a consequence Baars and his followers left the movement and the General Dutch Fascist League, which was the main entity in the alliance, collapsed, allowing the initiative to pass to Nazi-inclined elements such as the National Socialist Movement in the Netherlands of Anton Mussert and Ernst Herman van Rappard's National Socialist Dutch Workers Party.[6]

Gerretson returned to the CHU and became a leading figure in the party at the head of a pro-colonial faction based in Utrecht. A strong voice on the right of the party, noted for his rhetoric, Gerretson would later become an isolated figure within the CHU.

decolonisation that pervaded in the commission.[1] Gerretson was a CHU candidate in the 1956 general election but lost his Senate seat.[1] He was a policy adviser for the party from 1951 to 1955 and was also a regular contributor to the CHU organ De Nederlander.[1]

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f g Dr. F.C. (Carel) Gerretson - Hoofdinhoud
  2. ISBN 9789065508065
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  3. ^ Frederik Carel Gerretson on Open Library
  4. ^ Carel Gerretson in the Biografisch Woordenboek van Nederland
  5. ^ Geerten Gossaert
  6. ^ Philip Rees, Biographical Dictionary of the Extreme Right Since 1890, 1991, p. 18
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