Marinus van der Goes van Naters

Marinus van der Goes van Naters
Marinus van der Goes van Naters in 1946
Member of the European Parliament
In office
1 January 1958 – 7 May 1967
Parliamentary groupSocialist Group
ConstituencyNetherlands
Member of the European Coal
and Steel Community Parliament
In office
10 September 1952 – 1 January 1958
Parliamentary groupSocialist Group
ConstituencyNetherlands
Parliamentary leader in the House of Representatives
In office
4 June 1946 – 16 January 1951
Preceded byOffice established
Succeeded byJaap Burger
Parliamentary groupLabour Party
In office
25 September 1945 – 4 June 1946
Preceded byWillem Drees
Succeeded byOffice discontinued
Parliamentary groupSocial Democratic Workers' Party
Member of the House of Representatives
In office
4 June 1946 – 22 February 1967
Parliamentary groupLabour Party
In office
8 June 1937 – 4 June 1946
Parliamentary groupSocial Democratic Workers' Party
Personal details
Born
Marinus van der Goes van Naters

(1900-12-21)21 December 1900
Nijmegen, Netherlands
Died12 February 2005(2005-02-12) (aged 104)
Wassenaar, Netherlands
Political partyLabour Party (from 1946)
Other political
affiliations
Social Democratic Workers' Party (until 1946)
Spouse
Anneke van der Plaats
(m. 1924; died 1985)
Children5
Alma materLeiden University (LLB, LLM, PhD)
Occupation

Jonkheer Marinus van der Goes van Naters (21 December 1900 – 12 February 2005) was a Dutch politician of the defunct Social Democratic Workers' Party (SDAP) and later the Labour Party (PvdA) and lawyer.

Background and early career

He was born in Nijmegen. He was a member of the House of Representatives from 1937 to 1967 and in-parliament chairman of the Social Democratic parties SDAP and its successor the Dutch Labour Party from 1945 to 1951.[citation needed]

Imprisonment at Buchenwald and elsewhere

From 1940 to 1944 during World War II he was held hostage by the German occupiers in various camps, including Buchenwald concentration camp.[citation needed]

German border issues after WW2

In the mid-1950s he was involved in the eponymous plan adopted by the Council of Europe for the settlement of the Saar question. In the post-war years he successfully argued that the Duivelsberg (German: Wylerberg or Teufelsberg), annexed from Germany after World War II, be retained permanently by the Netherlands.[citation needed]

Death

He died in 2005 at the age of 104 in Wassenaar, Netherlands.[citation needed]

Decorations

Honours
Ribbon bar Honour Country Date Comment
Knight of the Order of the Netherlands Lion Netherlands 30 April 1951
Commander of the Order of Orange-Nassau Netherlands 22 February 1967

See also



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