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Louis Beel

1902 - 1977

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Louis Joseph Maria Beel (12 April 1902 – 11 February 1977) was a Dutch politician of the Roman Catholic State Party (RKSP) and later co-founder of the Catholic People's Party (KVP) and jurist who served as Prime Minister of the Netherlands from 3 July 1946 until 7 August 1948 and from 22 December 1958 until 19 May 1959. Beel studied Law at the Radboud University Nijmegen obtaining a Master of Laws degree and worked as a civil servant in Eindhoven and for the provincial executive of Overijssel from July 1929 until May 1942 and as a researcher at his alma mater before finishing his thesis and graduating as a Doctor of Law in Administrative law and during World War II worked as a lawyer in Eindhoven from May 1942 until January 1945. Shortly before the end of the War, Beel was appointed as Minister of the Interior in the Gerbrandy III cabinet, the last government-in-exile taking office on 23 February 1945. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Louis Beel has received more than 137,527 page views. His biography is available in 26 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 25 in 2019). Louis Beel is the 9,800th most popular politician (up from 10,692nd in 2019), the 438th most popular biography from Netherlands (up from 484th in 2019) and the 69th most popular Dutch Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Louis Beel ranks 9,800 out of 19,576. Before him are Otmar Hasler, Christoph von Dohnányi, Enric Prat de la Riba, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Conrad I, Duke of Carinthia, and Ernest, Margrave of Baden-Durlach. After him are Beketaten, Eloy Alfaro, Emperor Xiaoming of Northern Wei, Iset, Guillaume de Chartres, and Viola of Teschen.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1902, Louis Beel ranks 131. Before him are Eric Liddell, Boris Barnet, Josef Krips, Nordahl Grieg, Virginio Rosetta, and Shigeyoshi Suzuki. After him are Oscar Cullmann, Ryu Gwansun, Józef Maria Bocheński, Panteleimon Ponomarenko, John Houseman, and Carlos Drummond de Andrade. Among people deceased in 1977, Louis Beel ranks 109. Before him are Alexander Tcherepnin, Wilhelm Boger, Otto Deßloch, Carl Gustaf von Rosen, Ivan Fedyuninsky, and Luigi Bertolini. After him are Henri Langlois, Alphonse Massamba-Débat, Diana Hyland, Mirzo Tursunzoda, Kōichi Kido, and Jan-Carl Raspe.

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In Netherlands

Among people born in Netherlands, Louis Beel ranks 438 out of 1,646. Before him are Pieter Corneliszoon Hooft (1581), Wil van Gogh (1862), Frits Philips (1905), Jan Miense Molenaer (1610), Rinus Israël (1942), and Lou Ottens (1926). After him are Jan Akkerman (1946), Thomas de Keyser (1596), Princess Amalia of Nassau-Dietz (1710), Johanna van Gogh-Bonger (1862), Edward, Count Palatine of Simmern (1625), and Dick Nanninga (1949).

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Among POLITICIANS In Netherlands

Among politicians born in Netherlands, Louis Beel ranks 69. Before him are Herman Willem Daendels (1762), Frits Bolkestein (1933), Barend Biesheuvel (1920), Pieter Both (1568), Countess Albertine Agnes of Nassau (1634), and Dirk Jan de Geer (1870). After him are Princess Amalia of Nassau-Dietz (1710), Edward, Count Palatine of Simmern (1625), Dirk I, Count of Holland (875), Nicolaes Witsen (1641), James Scott, 1st Duke of Monmouth (1649), and Pieter Sjoerds Gerbrandy (1885).

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