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Jelle Zijlstra

1918 - 2001

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Jelle Zijlstra (Dutch pronunciation: [ˈjɛlə ˈzɛilstraː]; 27 August 1918 – 23 December 2001) was a Dutch politician of the defunct Anti-Revolutionary Party (ARP) now the Christian Democratic Appeal (CDA) party and economist who served as Prime Minister of the Netherlands from 22 November 1966 until 5 April 1967.Zijlstra studied Economics at the Rotterdam School of Economics obtaining a Master of Economics degree and worked as a researcher and lecturer at his alma mater before finishing his thesis and graduated as a Doctor of Philosophy in Public economics and worked as a professor of Public economics at the Free University Amsterdam from October 1948 until September 1952. After the election of 1952 Zijlstra was appointed as Minister of Economic Affairs in the Cabinet Drees II taking office on 2 September 1952. After Party Leader Jan Schouten announced his retirement Zijlstra was selected his successor as Leader on 23 April 1956. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jelle Zijlstra has received more than 79,925 page views. His biography is available in 27 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 25 in 2019). Jelle Zijlstra is the 11,165th most popular politician (down from 10,232nd in 2019), the 508th most popular biography from Netherlands (down from 465th in 2019) and the 77th most popular Dutch Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Jelle Zijlstra ranks 11,165 out of 15,577Before him are Dorothea Marie of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg, Carl Schurz, Rainer Barzel, Anthony Panizzi, Vicente López y Planes, and Carlo II Tocco. After him are Puzur-Ashur I, Philip II, Count of Schaumburg-Lippe, Charles Doolittle Walcott, Santiago Casares Quiroga, Mary McAleese, and Xenophon Zolotas.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1918, Jelle Zijlstra ranks 153Before him are Hella Haasse, Brenda Milner, Cameron Mitchell, Friedrich Josias, Prince of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, Helen Stephens, and Hank Jones. After him are Abraham Robinson, Oles Honchar, Khondaker Mostaq Ahmad, Robert Ettinger, Pyotr Masherov, and Venetia Burney. Among people deceased in 2001, Jelle Zijlstra ranks 136Before him are Juan Carlos Lorenzo, Tommy Flanagan, John Lewis, Burt Kennedy, Charles Helou, and Hilde Holger. After him are Stelios Kazantzidis, Luiz Bonfá, Davorin Popović, Victor Wong, Barend Biesheuvel, and Jaromil Jireš.

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In Netherlands

Among people born in Netherlands, Jelle Zijlstra ranks 508 out of 1,427Before him are George Hendrik Breitner (1857), Peter R. de Vries (1956), Henriëtte Ronner-Knip (1821), Herman van Veen (1945), Tim Krabbé (1943), and Corine Rottschäfer (1938). After him are Roy Makaay (1975), Gisbertus Voetius (1589), Jan Janssonius (1588), Thomas Joannes Stieltjes (1856), Gerald Vanenburg (1964), and Willem Roelofs (1822).

Among POLITICIANS In Netherlands

Among politicians born in Netherlands, Jelle Zijlstra ranks 77Before him are Countess Albertine Agnes of Nassau (1634), Dirk Stikker (1897), Princess Amalia of Nassau-Dietz (1710), Nicolaes Witsen (1641), Roméo Dallaire (1946), and Louis Beel (1902). After him are Barend Biesheuvel (1920), Henry Casimir I of Nassau-Dietz (1612), Frits Bolkestein (1933), Cornelis Lely (1854), Dirk Jan de Geer (1870), and Badr Hari (1984).