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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 defunct Roman Catholic State Party (RKSP) and later co-founder of the Catholic People's Party (KVP) now the Christian Democratic Appeal (CDA) party 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 Cabinet Gerbrandy III, 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 125,942 page views. His biography is available in 25 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 24 in 2019). Louis Beel is the 10,721st most popular politician (down from 8,929th in 2019), the 485th most popular biography from Netherlands (down from 380th in 2019) and the 76th most popular Dutch Politician.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 25

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.03

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  • 2.61

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Louis Beel ranks 10,721 out of 15,577. Before him are Krešimir I of Croatia, Hugo Preuß, Sirajuddin of Perlis, Philopappos, Béhanzin, and Infanta Maria Doroteia of Portugal. After him are Richard of Salerno, Shi Lang, King Hui of Zhou, Quintus Caecilius Metellus Creticus, Thoros I, Prince of Armenia, and Andrés Pastrana Arango.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1902, Louis Beel ranks 157. Before him are Sylvain Arend, Sergey Lebedev, Manuel Álvarez Bravo, Ferdinand Marian, Nikolay Kamov, and Margaret Hamilton. After him are Lon L. Fuller, Max Abegglen, Shen Congwen, Emanuel Feuermann, Moderato Wisintainer, and Erik Eriksen. Among people deceased in 1977, Louis Beel ranks 118. Before him are István Avar, Scott Bradley, Alphonse Massamba-Débat, E. F. Schumacher, Jan-Carl Raspe, and Luigi Bertolini. After him are Eve Meyer, Alice Paul, Mirzo Tursunzoda, Tibor Déry, Jean Rostand, and Hans Erich Nossack.

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In Netherlands

Among people born in Netherlands, Louis Beel ranks 485 out of 1,427. Before him are Fons Rademakers (1920), Balthasar Bekker (1634), Theodoor Hendrik van de Velde (1873), Pieter Post (1608), Abraham van Diepenbeeck (1596), and Jacob Adriaensz Backer (1608). After him are Anthony van Hoboken (1887), Corneille de Lyon (1500), Wim Rijsbergen (1952), Erik ten Hag (1970), Rie Mastenbroek (1919), and Jan Mostaert (1475).

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Among POLITICIANS In Netherlands

Among politicians born in Netherlands, Louis Beel ranks 76. Before him are Pieter Both (1568), Countess Albertine Agnes of Nassau (1634), Dirk Stikker (1897), Princess Amalia of Nassau-Dietz (1710), Nicolaes Witsen (1641), and Roméo Dallaire (1946). After him are Jelle Zijlstra (1918), Barend Biesheuvel (1920), Henry Casimir I of Nassau-Dietz (1612), Frits Bolkestein (1933), Cornelis Lely (1854), and Dirk Jan de Geer (1870).

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