Jozias van Aartsen

Jozias van Aartsen
Jozias van Aartsen in 2012

Mayor of The Hague
Incumbent
Assumed office 27 March 2008
Preceded by	Wim Deetman
Leader of the People's Party for Freedom and Democracy
In office 27 November 2004 – 8 March 2006
Preceded by	Gerrit Zalm
Succeeded by	Mark Rutte
Leader of the People's Party for Freedom and Democracy in the House of Representatives
In office 27 May 2003 – 8 March 2006
Preceded by	Gerrit Zalm
Succeeded by	Willibrord van Beek
Minister of Foreign Affairs
In office 3 August 1998 – 22 July 2002
Prime Minister	Wim Kok
Preceded by	Hans van Mierlo
Succeeded by	Jaap de Hoop Scheffer
Member of the House of Representatives
In office 19 May 1998 – 3 August 1998
In office 23 May 2002 – 30 November 2006
Minister of Agriculture, Nature and Food Quality
In office 22 August 1994 – 3 August 1998
Prime Minister	Wim Kok
Preceded by	Piet Bukman
Succeeded by	Haijo Apotheker
Personal details
Born	Jozias Johannes van Aartsen (1947-12-25) 25 December 1947 The Hague, Netherlands
Nationality	Dutch
Political party	People's Party for Freedom and Democracy
Spouse(s)	Henriëtte Warsen (m. 1972)^[1]^[2]
Children	3
Residence	The Hague, Netherlands
Alma mater	VU University Amsterdam (Bachelor of Laws)
Occupation	Politician Civil servant
Religion	Protestantism
Signature
Website	Mayor Jozias van Aartsen

This is a Dutch name; the family name is van Aartsen, not Aartsen.

Jozias Johannes van Aartsen (Dutch pronunciation: [ˈjoːzijɑs joːˈɦɑnəs fɑn ˈaːrtsə(n)];^[3] born 25 December 1947) is a Dutch politician of the People's Party for Freedom and Democracy (VVD). He has been the Mayor of The Hague since 27 March 2008.

Van Aartsen previously served as the Minister of Agriculture, Nature and Food Quality from 22 August 1994 until 3 August 1998 in the Cabinet Kok I. He became a Member of the House of Representatives for a short period serving from 19 May 1998 until 3 August 1998 following the Dutch general election of 1998. He served as the Minister of Foreign Affairs from 3 August 1998 until 22 July 2002 in the Cabinet Kok II. He returned to the Member of the House of Representatives serving from 23 May 2002 until 30 November 2006, when the People's Party for Freedom and Democracy Party leader and Parliamentary leader in the House of Representatives Gerrit Zalm became Minister of Finance and Deputy Prime Minister in the Cabinet Balkenende II.

Van Aartsen became the Parliamentary leader serving from 27 May 2003 until 8 March 2006. After disagreeing with Zalm about his position that the Party leader shouldn't be a member of the cabinet unless that person is the Prime Minister, the Parliamentary leader in the House of Representatives should be the Party leader. After months of discussions and arguing, Van Aartsen took over as Party leader from Zalm in all but name. After poor results in the Dutch municipal elections of 2006 he stepped down as Parliamentary leader and was temporally succeeded by Willibrord van Beek, until the election of Mark Rutte as the new Parliamentary leader and Party leader.^[4]

In August 2006 Van Aartsen announced that he would not run as a candidate for the People's Party for Freedom and Democracy for the upcoming Dutch general election of 2006.^[5] In 2008 he was nominated to succeed Wim Deetman as Mayor of The Hague and took office on 27 March 2008.

Early life

Jozias Johannes van Aartsen born on 25 December 1947 in The Hague, son of Jan van Aartsen a politician of the Anti Revolutionary Party (ARP), who served as Minister of Transport and Water Management, Minister of Housing and Construction and Queen's Commissioner of Zeeland. After completing the Gymnasium-a he studied law at the Vrije Universiteit but did not graduate. At the age of 22 van Aartsen moved to The Hague to work in politics.

Politics

When Hans Wiegel became Party leader, in 1971, van Aartsen was asked to work for Hans Wiegel as employee of the party in the House of Representatives. In 1974 he became Director-general of the Teldersstichting, the scientific institute of the People's Party for Freedom and Democracy. In 1978 Van Aartsen became Chef de Bureau of the Secretary General of Interior. He did this under ministers Rietkerk, van Dijk, de Korte, de Koning, Dales and de Graaf. In 1985 he became Secretary General of Interior himself. He was minister of Agriculture from 1994-1998 in the First cabinet of Wim Kok. In the Second cabinet of Wim Kok he was the Minister of Foreign Affairs. When the cabinet fell as a direct result of the NIOD report about the fall of Srebrenica, he became parliamentary leader in the Dutch parliament.

On 1 April 2004 an attempt was made to overrun van Aartsen by a car when he and a co-worker were doing a photoshoot in front of Hotel Des Indes in The Hague. Van Aartsen was not hurt but the co-worker did sustain a shoulder injury. The assailant, a 41-year-old lawyer by the name of Frederiek de Jongh and an employee of Bureau Rechtshulp in Utrecht confessed her action was politically motivated.^[6]

In a letter to party leader Mark Rutte he expressed his disappointment with the demise of the Second Balkenende cabinet which in his view was uncalled for. He also warned for VVD interparty warring between a populist fraction with a no-nonsense attitude and focus on tax cuts and law and order and a liberal fraction focused on personal freedoms, rule of law, international orientation and education. Jozias van Aartsen is a member of the Bilderberg Group.

References

↑ (Dutch) Schoktherapeut in een mooi Haags streepjespak, NRC, 4 September 2000
↑ (Dutch) Minister Jozias van Aartsen langs de Feministische Meetlat, Opzij.nl, 1 October 2000
↑ In isolation, van is pronounced [vɑn].
↑ (Dutch) 'Tussenpaus' Van Beek gaat VVD-fractie leiden, Trouw, March 9, 2006
↑ (Dutch) Jozias van Aartsen vertrekt na verkiezingen, Elsevier, August 21, 2006
↑ (Dutch) Verwarde advocate reed met opzet Van Aartsen aan, Volkskrant, 4 April 2004

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(Dutch) J.J. (Jozias) van Aartsen Parlement & Politiek

Party political offices
Preceded by Gerrit Zalm	Leader of the People's Party for Freedom and Democracy in the House of Representatives 2003-2006	Succeeded by Willibrord van Beek
Preceded by Gerrit Zalm	Leader of the People's Party for Freedom and Democracy 2004-2006	Succeeded by Mark Rutte
Political offices
Preceded by Piet Bukman	Minister of Agriculture, Nature and Food Quality 1994-1998	Succeeded by Haijo Apotheker
Preceded by Hans van Mierlo	Minister of Foreign Affairs 1998-2002	Succeeded by Jaap de Hoop Scheffer
Preceded by Wim Deetman	Mayor of The Hague 2008-present	Incumbent

Ministers of Foreign Affairs of the Netherlands

Ministry of Foreign Affairs

Schimmelpenninck Bentinck van Nijenhuis Lightenvelt Van Sonsbeeck Ja. van Zuylen van Nijevelt Van Hall Gevers van Endegeest Van Goltstein Van Hall Ju. van Zuylen van Nijevelt Van der Goes van Dirxland Ja. van Zuylen van Nijevelt Strens Stratenus Van der Maesen de Sombreff Huyssen van Kattendijke Cremers Ju. van Zuylen van Nijevelt Van Mulken Roest van Limburg Van Mulken Gericke van Herwijnen Van der Does de Willebois Van Heeckeren van Kell Van Lynden van Sandenburg Rochussen Van der Does de Willebois Du Tour van Bellinchave Van Karnebeek Hartsen Van Tienhoven Jansen Röell De Beaufort Van Lynden Ellis Van Weede van Berencamp Ellis Van Tets van Goudriaan De Marees van Swinderen Cort van der Linden Loudon Van Karnebeek Beelaerts van Blokland De Graeff Ruijs de Beerenbrouck Colijn Patijn Van Kleffens Van Roijen Van Boetzelaer van Oosterhout Stikker Beyen Luns Schmelzer Van der Stoel Van der Klaauw Van der Stoel Van Agt Van den Broek Kooijmans Van Mierlo Van Aartsen De Hoop Scheffer Bot Verhagen Rosenthal Timmermans Koenders

Ministers of Agriculture of the Netherlands

Ministry of Agriculture, Nature and Food Quality

Mansholt Staf Vondeling Staf Marijnen Biesheuvel Lardinois Boersma Brouwer Van der Stee Braks De Koning Braks De Vries Bukman Van Aartsen Apotheker Brinkhorst Veerman Verburg Verhagen

Second Kok cabinet (1998–2002)

^{Preceded by: First Kok cabinet · Succeeded by: First Balkenende cabinet}

Prime Minister	Wim Kok (General Affairs)

Deputy Prime Ministers	Annemarie Jorritsma (Economic Affairs) Els Borst (Health, Welfare and Sport)

Ministers	Bram Peper (Interior and Kingdom Relations) (1998–2000) Roger van Boxtel (Interior and Kingdom Relations) (acting) Klaas de Vries (Interior and Kingdom Relations) (2000–2002) Jozias van Aartsen (Foreign Affairs) Gerrit Zalm (Finance) Benk Korthals (Justice) Frank de Grave (Defence) Loek Hermans (Education, Culture and Science) Tineke Netelenbos (Transport, Public Works and Water Management) Haijo Apotheker (Agriculture, Nature and Fisheries) (1998–1999) Laurens Jan Brinkhorst (Agriculture, Nature and Fisheries) (1999–2002) Klaas de Vries (Social Affairs and Employment) (1998–2000) Willem Vermeend (Social Affairs and Employment) (2000–2002) Jan Pronk (Housing, Spatial Planning and the Environment)

Minister without portfolio	Roger van Boxtel (Large Cities and Integration) Eveline Herfkens (Development Cooperation)

State Secretaries	Gijs de Vries (Interior and Kingdom Relations) Dick Benschop (Foreign Affairs) Willem Vermeend (Finance) (1998–2000) Wouter Bos (Finance) (2000–2002) Job Cohen (Justice) (1998–2000) Ella Kalsbeek (Justice) (2001) Gerrit Ybema (Economic Affairs) Henk van Hoof (Defence) Margo Vliegenthart (Health, Welfare and Sport) Karin Adelmund (Education, Culture and Science) Rick van der Ploeg (Education, Culture and Science) Monique de Vries (Transport, Public Works and Water Management) Geke Faber (Agriculture, Nature and Fisheries Hans Hoogervorst (Social Affairs and Employment) Annelies Verstand (Social Affairs and Employment) Johan Remkes (Housing, Spatial Planning and the Environment)

First Kok cabinet (1994–1998)

^{Preceded by: Third Lubbers cabinet · Succeeded by: Second Kok cabinet}

Prime Minister	Wim Kok (General Affairs)

Deputy Prime Ministers	Hans Dijkstal (Interior) Hans van Mierlo (Foreign Affairs)

Ministers	Gerrit Zalm (Finance) Winnie Sorgdrager (Justice) Hans Wijers (Economic Affairs) Joris Voorhoeve (Defence and Netherlands Antilles and Aruba Affairs) Els Borst (Health, Welfare and Sport) Jo Ritzen (Education, Culture and Science) Annemarie Jorritsma (Transport, Public Works and Water Management) Jozias van Aartsen (Agriculture, Nature and Food Quality) Ad Melkert (Social Affairs and Employment) Margreeth de Boer (Housing, Spatial Planning and the Environment)

Minister without portfolio	Jan Pronk (Development Cooperation)

State Secretaries	Jacob Kohnstamm (Interior) Tonny van de Vondervoort (Interior) Michiel Patijn (Foreign Affairs) Willem Vermeend (Finance) Elizabeth Schmitz (Justice) Anneke van Dok-van Weele (Economic Affairs) Jan Gmelich Meijling (Defence) Erica Terpstra (Health, Welfare and Sport) Tineke Netelenbos (Education, Culture and Science) Aad Nuis (Education, Culture and Science) Monique de Vries (Transport, Public Works and Water Management) Robin Linschoten (Social Affairs and Employment) (1994–1996) Frank de Grave (Social Affairs and Employment) (1996–1998) Dick Tommel (Housing, Spatial Planning and the Environment)

People's Party for Freedom and Democracy

Leaders	Oud Toxopeus Geertsema Wiegel Nijpels De Korte Voorhoeve Bolkestein Dijkstal Zalm Van Aartsen Rutte

Chairmen	Stikker Oud Van der Pols Van Someren Korthals Altes Kamminga Ginjaar Van Leeuwen-Schut Hoekzema Eenhoorn Van Zanen Opstelten Korthals Keizer

Parliamentary leaders in the Senate	Molenaar Van Riel Van Someren Zoutendijk Luteijn Korthals Altes Ginjaar Van den Broek-Laman Trip Rosenthal De Graaf Hermans Jorritsma

Parliamentary leaders in the House of Representatives	Oud Toxopeus Geertsema Toxopeus Geertsema Wiegel Rietkerk Wiegel Nijpels Voorhoeve Bolkestein Dijkstal Zalm Van Aartsen Van Beek Rutte Blok Rutte Zijlstra

Party organizations	Youth Organisation Freedom and Democracy Telders Foundation Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe Party Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe Group Liberal International

Authority control	WorldCat Identities VIAF: 80722673 LCCN: n84193881 GND: 13636568X

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