Marianne Thieme
Marianne Thieme | |
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Leader of the Party for the Animals | |
In office 28 October 2002 – 9 October 2019 | |
Preceded by | Position established |
Succeeded by | Esther Ouwehand |
Leader of the Party for the Animals in the House of Representatives | |
In office 30 November 2006 – 9 October 2019 | |
Preceded by | Position established |
Succeeded by | Esther Ouwehand |
Member of the House of Representatives | |
In office 30 November 2006 – 9 October 2019 | |
Chairwoman of the Party for the Animals | |
In office 28 October 2002 – 28 November 2010 | |
Preceded by | Position established |
Succeeded by | Luuk Folkerts |
Personal details | |
Born | Marianne Louise Thieme 6 March 1972 Ede, Netherlands |
Political party | Party for the Animals |
Residence(s) | Maarssen, Netherlands |
Alma mater | Erasmus University Rotterdam (LLM in administrative law), University of Wales Trinity Saint David (MA in theology). |
Occupation | Politician, animal rights activist, author |
Website | Worldlog |
Marianne Louise Thieme (Dutch pronunciation: [maːriˈjɑnə ˈtimə]; born 6 March 1972) is a Dutch politician, author and animal rights activist. A jurist and theologian by education, she served as the Party for the Animals' political leader from 2002 to 2019 and a member of the House of Representatives from 2006 to 2019.
Early life and career
Thieme studied at
From 1998 to 2001 Thieme worked at research agency B&A Group in
Political career
In October 2002 Thieme and other animal protectionists founded the Party for the Animals (Partij voor de Dieren, PvdD). During the general election of 2003 the party gained 47,754 votes (0.5%), but not a seat in the House of Representatives which is obtained by 0.67% of the vote.
In February 2004 she was nominated to become the party's
In May 2014 the party got 200,254 votes (4.21%) for the
During the general election of 2006 the Party for Animals gained 179,988 votes (1.8%), enough for two seats in the lower house of the States General of the Netherlands. The party became the world's first party to gain parliamentary seats with an agenda focused primarily on animal rights. Marianne Thieme became an MP alongside Esther Ouwehand.[1] At the general election of 2010 the party received 122,317 votes (1.3%) and its two MPs were reelected; two years later, with 182,162 votes (1.9%), the PvdD won two seats again. The party ran at the general election of 2017 with Thieme as lijsttrekker for the fifth time. With 335,214 votes (3.2%), it gained five seats.
Thieme always concludes her speeches in Parliament with the phrase "Voorts zijn wij van mening dat er een einde moet komen aan de bio-industrie." ("Furthermore we are of the opinion that
On 8 October 2019, Thieme resigned from Parliament and her leadership of the PvdD.[2] Esther Ouwehand replaced Thieme as party leader in the House of Representatives and Eva van Esch took her former seat in Parliament.[3]
Personal life
Thieme became a member of the Seventh-day Adventist Church in 2006 "because [it is] a church with compassion and care for our planet."[1][4] It caused some controversy about its stance that "Adam and Eve were vegetarians"[5]
She has a daughter (Annika, born 2002) and lives in Maarssen. On 6 November 2008, she married Jaap Korteweg, an organic farmer from Langeweg, with whom she had a second daughter (Amélie, born 2012).[6] They divorced in 2017.[7] In 2021 she married Ewald Engelen,[8] with whom she has been in a relationship since 2018.[9]
Bibliography
In May 2004, Thieme's book De eeuw van het dier (The Century of the Animal) was published. Animal rights are the centre point of the text, which draws a line from the end of
See also
- List of animal rights advocates
- List of Dutch women writers
- List of members of the House of Representatives of the Netherlands, 2006–2010
- List of members of the House of Representatives of the Netherlands, 2010–2012
- List of members of the House of Representatives of the Netherlands, 2012–2017
- List of members of the House of Representatives of the Netherlands, 2017–2021
- List of Seventh-day Adventists
- List of vegetarians
References
- (in Dutch) Parlement.com biography
- ^ a b Julius Nam (September 2007). "A Platform of Compassion". Spectrum. Archived from the original on 2008-05-18. Retrieved 2008-02-23.
- ^ "Animal party leader leaves parliament after 13 years". NL Times. 2019-09-30. Retrieved 2020-08-28.
- ^ "Utrechts raadslid neemt plek Marianne Thieme in Tweede Kamer over". De Utrechtse Internet Courant. 2019-09-29. Retrieved 2020-08-28.
- ^ "Marianne Thieme: Adventist Animal Rights Politician". Adventist Today. 5 May 2017. Retrieved 2018-10-31.
- ^ "Tien jaar Partij voor de Dieren". nos.nl (in Dutch). 28 October 2012. Retrieved 2019-09-25.
- ^ Weblog Marianne Thieme Archived 2016-03-30 at the Wayback Machine, 14 March 2012.
- ^ Thomas Snoeys (September 2, 2017). "Marianne Thieme en Jaap Korteweg na negen jaar uit elkaar". Algemeen Dagblad (in Dutch).
- ^ Marinde van der Breggen (September 17, 2021). "Marianne Thieme over duurzaamheid in de politiek: 'Christelijke leiders willen alles bij het oude laten'". Trouw (in Dutch).
- ^ Annemiek Leclaire (July 5, 2021). "Met Ewald Engelen en Marianne Thieme aan de keukentafel: 'We hebben elkaar anders leren kijken'". Vrij Nederland (in Dutch).
External links
- Biography
- Worldlog
- Marianne Thieme at IMDb
- Meat the Truth (Meat the Truth at IMDb)