Jelle Zijlstra
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Jelle Zijlstra
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| In office April 30, 1983 – December 23, 2001 |
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| In office November 22, 1966 – April 5, 1967 |
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| Monarch | Queen Juliana |
| Preceded by | Jo Cals |
| Succeeded by | Piet de Jong |
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| In office November 22, 1966 – April 5, 1967 |
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| Prime Minister | Jelle Zijlstra |
| Preceded by | Anne Vondeling |
| Succeeded by | Johan Witteveen |
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| In office June 25, 1963 – November 22, 1966 |
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| In office December 22, 1958 – July 24, 1963 |
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| Prime Minister | Louis Beel (1958-1959) Jan de Quay (1959-1963) |
| Preceded by | Hendrik Jan Hofstra |
| Succeeded by | Johan Witteveen |
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| In office October 13, 1956 – October 29, 1956 |
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| Prime Minister | Willem Drees |
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| In office July 3, 1956 – October 3, 1956 |
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| In office June 1, 1956 – October 3, 1956 |
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| Preceded by | Sieuwert Bruins Slot |
| Succeeded by | Sieuwert Bruins Slot |
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| In office September 2, 1952 – May 19, 1959 |
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| Prime Minister | Willem Drees (1952-1958) Louis Beel (1958-1959) |
| Preceded by | Jan van den Brink |
| Succeeded by | Jan Willem de Pous |
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| Born | 27 August 1918 Oosterbierum, Netherlands |
| Died | 23 December 2001 (aged 83) Wassenaar, Netherlands |
| Political party | ARP (1952-1980) CDA (from 1980) |
| Spouse | Hetty Bloksma |
| Alma mater | Vrije Universiteit |
| Occupation | Economist |
| Religion | Reformed Protestant |
Jelle Zijlstra (27 August 1918 - 23 December 2001) was a Dutch Politician of the Protestant ARP party. He was widely respected for his expertise and integrity.
[edit] Biography
Zijlstra was born in Oosterbierum on 27 August 1918. After completing his secondary education he studied at the Netherlands School of Economics (the predecessor of the Erasmus University). His studies were interrupted twice. First by his period of military service and later when he had to go into hiding in 1942 after refusing to sign the loyalty oath required of students by the Nazi occupation authorities. Even so, he completed his economics degree in October 1945.
Immediately after graduating, Zijlstra became a research assistant at the Netherlands School of Economics and was promoted a year later to senior research assistant and in 1947 to lecturer. In 1948 he was awarded a doctorate for his thesis on the rate of circulation of money and its bearing on the value of money and monetary equilibrium. In the same year he was appointed professor of theoretical economics at the Vrije Universiteit.
He was already a member of the ARP, which was to be absorbed in 1980 into the Christian Democratic Appeal (CDA). Representing this party he became between 2 September 1952 and 24 July 1963, successively Minister of Economic Affairs in the second and third Drees governments, Minister of Economic Affairs and interim Minister of Finance in the second Beel government and Minister of Finance in the De Quay government.
Following his ministerial career, Zijlstra returned to the Vrije Universiteit as professor of public finance, though he also served between 1963 and 1966 as a member of the Senate.
After the fall of the Cals administration, Zijlstra headed an interim government between 22 November 1966 and 5 April 1967.
From then until the end of 1981 he was President of De Nederlandsche Bank and in the course of that period also President of the Bank for International Settlements in Basel.
On 29 April 1983, he was appointed Minister of State. He has sat on many boards in the public and private sectors.
Zijlstra died in Wassenaar on 23 December 2001.
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