First Beel cabinet
First Beel cabinet | |
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 42nd Cabinet of the Netherlands | |
  First meeting of the cabinet at the Ministry of General Affairs on 3 July 1946 | |
| Date formed | 3 July 1946 |
| Date dissolved | 7 August 1948 2 years, 35 days in office (Demissionary from 7 July 1948) |
| People and organisations | |
| Monarch | Queen Wilhelmina |
| Prime Minister | Louis Beel |
| Deputy Prime Minister | Willem Drees |
| No. of ministers | 17 |
| Ministers removed | 5 |
| Total no. of members | 19 |
| Member party | Catholic People's Party (KVP) Labour Party (PvdA) |
| Status in legislature | Centrist Majority government (Grand coalition/Roman-Red) |
| History | |
| Election(s) | 1946 election |
| Outgoing election | 1948 election |
| Legislature term(s) | 1946–1948 |
| Incoming formation | 1946 formation |
| Outgoing formation | 1948 formation |
| Predecessor | Schermerhorn–Drees cabinet |
| Successor | Drees–Van Schaik cabinet |
| Part of the Politics series |
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The First Beel Minister of Social Affairs from the previous cabinet. According to one study, “Beel was of the opinion that a joint KVP-PvdA program should be presented to other political groups. According to Beel, that program should be socio-economically progressive, that is to say reform-oriented in favor of broad layers of the population. The socialists should not have to fear that a conservative wing within the KVP would rule the roost.”[2]
The cabinet served during early years of the
decolonization of the Dutch East Indies was continued. The cabinet suffered no major internal and external conflicts. Following a major revision of the constitution a snap election was called to simultaneously elect a new parliament. Following the election the cabinet continued in a demissionary capacity until it was replaced with the Drees–Van Schaik cabinet.[3][4]
Term
A major issue was the independence of the
Drees I
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An important new law was the 'Noodwet Ouderdomsvoorziening' by Minister of Social Affairs Willem Drees
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Cabinet Members
| Ministers | Title/Ministry/Portfolio(s) | Term of office | Party | ||||
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Dr. Louis Beel (1902–1977) |
Prime Minister | 3 July 1946 – 7 August 1948 |
Catholic People's Party | |||
| General Affairs | 11 October 1947 – 7 August 1948 | ||||||
Minister
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Interior | 23 February 1945 – 15 September 1947 [Retained] | |||||
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Willem Drees (1886–1988) |
Deputy Prime Minister |
Social Affairs | 25 June 1945 – 7 August 1948 [Retained] |
Labour Party | ||
Minister
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Dr. Piet Witteman (1892–1972) |
Minister
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Interior | 15 September 1947 – 7 August 1948 |
Catholic People's Party | ||
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Baron Pim van Boetzelaer van Oosterhout (1892–1986) |
Minister
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Foreign Affairs | 3 July 1946 – 7 August 1948 |
Independent Conservative Liberal | ||
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Dr. Piet Lieftinck (1902–1989) |
Minister
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Finance | 25 June 1945 – 1 July 1952 [Retained] [Continued] |
Labour Party | ||
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Johan van Maarseveen (1894–1951) |
Minister
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Justice | 3 July 1946 – 7 August 1948 |
Catholic People's Party | ||
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Dr. Gerardus Huysmans (1902–1948) |
Minister
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Economic Affairs
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3 July 1946 – 14 January 1948 [Res] |
Catholic People's Party | ||
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Sicco Mansholt (1908–1995) |
14 January 1948 – 20 January 1948 [Ad Interim] |
Labour Party | ||||
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Dr. Jan van den Brink (1915–2006) |
20 January 1948 – 2 September 1952 [Continued] |
Catholic People's Party | ||||
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Lieutenant colonel Alexander Fiévez (1902–1949) |
Minister
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War | 3 July 1946 – 7 August 1948 |
Catholic People's Party | ||
| Navy | 3 July 1946 – 7 August 1946 [Ad Interim] | ||||||
| 25 November 1947 – 7 August 1948 | |||||||
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Rear admiral Jules Schagen van Leeuwen (1896–1976) |
7 August 1946 – 25 November 1947 [Res] |
Independent Social Conservative | ||||
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Dr. Jos Gielen (1898–1981) |
Minister
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Education, Arts and Sciences |
3 July 1946 – 7 August 1948 |
Catholic People's Party | ||
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Hein Vos (1903–1972) |
Minister
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Transport | 3 July 1946 – 1 March 1947 |
Labour Party | ||
| Transport and Water Management [Note] |
1 March 1947 – 7 August 1948 | ||||||
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Sicco Mansholt (1908–1995) |
Minister
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Agriculture, Fisheries and Food Supplies |
25 June 1945 – 1 January 1958 [Retained] [Continued] |
Labour Party | ||
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Dr. Johan Ringers (1885–1965) |
Minister
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Public Works and Reconstruction |
25 June 1945 – 15 November 1946 [Retained] [Res] |
Independent Classical Liberal | ||
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Hein Vos (1900–1972) |
15 November 1946 – 3 March 1947 [Acting] |
Labour Party | ||||
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Lambertus Neher (1899–1967) |
Reconstruction and Housing [Note] |
3 March 1947 – 1 March 1948 [Res] |
Labour Party | |||
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Dr. Joris in 't Veld (1895–1981) |
1 March 1948 – 2 September 1952 [Continued] |
Labour Party | ||||
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Jan Jonkman (1891–1976) |
Minister
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Colonial Affairs | 3 July 1946 – 30 August 1947 [Note] |
Labour Party | ||
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Dr. Louis Beel (1902–1977) |
30 August 1947 – 3 November 1947 [Acting] |
Catholic People's Party | ||||
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Jan Jonkman (1891–1976) |
3 November 1947 – 30 August 1947 |
Labour Party | ||||
| Ministers without portfolio | Title/Ministry/Portfolio(s) | Term of office | Party | ||||
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Eelco van Kleffens (1894–1983) |
Minister
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Foreign Affairs | • United Nations | 1 March 1946 – 1 July 1947 [Retained] [App] |
Independent Classical Liberal | |
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Lubbertus Götzen (1894–1979) |
Minister
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Colonial Affairs | • Colonial Fiscal Policy |
11 November 1947 – 15 March 1951 [Continued] |
Independent Christian Democratic Protestant | |
- Resigned
- Retained from the previous cabinet
- Continued in the next cabinet
- Acting
- Ad Interim
- Ministry renamed
- Medical leave of absence from 30 August 1947 until 3 November 1947
- Appointed as Ambassador to the United States and the United Nations
Trivia
- Six cabinet members had previous experience as scholars or professors: Louis Beel (Administrative Law), Piet Lieftinck (Financial and Business Economics), Jan van den Brink (Public Economics and Economical Statistics), Jos Gielen (Philology and Education Sociology), Johan Ringers (Hydraulic and Structural Engineering) and Joris in 't Veld (Public Administration).
- The age difference between oldest cabinet member Johan Ringers (born 1885) and the youngest cabinet member Jan van den Brink (born 1915) was 30 years, 100 days.
- Louis Beel became the youngest Dutch Prime Minister at the age of 44 years, 82 days, a record that was broken in 1982 by Ruud Lubbers.
- Jan van den Brink became the youngest Dutch Minister at the age of 32 years, 283 days.
References
- ^ Changing Liaisons The Dynamics of Social Partnership in 20th Century West-European DemocraciesBy Karel Davids, 2007, P.165
- ^ III. De kabinetsformatie van 1946 a. De formatie tot 17 juni 1946
- ^ "Coalities tussen sociaaldemocraten en confessionelen" (in Dutch). Historisch Nieuwsblad. 10 August 2006. Retrieved 24 April 2018.
- ISBN 90-232-1412-9.
External links
- Official
- (in Dutch) Kabinet-Beel I Parlement & Politiek
- (in Dutch) Kabinet-Beel I Rijksoverheid
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