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Aar de Goede

Aar de Goede
Algemene beschouwingen in de Tweede Kamer in Den Haag. Kamerlid Aar de Goede (D66) aan het woord - NL-HaNA 2.24.01.05 0 920-7706 WM074.jpg
Aar de Goede speaking at a meeting in The Hague, October 1967
Member of the House of Representatives
In office
23 February 1967 – 11 May 1973
State Secretary of Finance
In office
11 May 1973 – 19 December 1977
Prime Minister Joop den Uyl
Member of the European Parliament
In office
17 July 1979 – 23 July 1984
Member of the Senate
In office
3 June 1986 – 23 June 1987
Personal details
Born (1928-05-21)21 May 1928
Vlaardingen, Netherlands
Died 16 May 2016(2016-05-16) (aged 87)
Zoeterwoude, Netherlands
Political party Democrats 66

Arie "Aar" de Goede (21 May 1928 – 16 May 2016) was a Dutch politician. A member of the Democrats 66 he served in the House of Representatives (1967–1973), European Parliament (1979–1984) and Senate (1986–1987). As part of the executive he was State Secretary of Finance between 1973 and 1977.

De Goede was born on 21 May 1928 in Vlaardingen. He attended the Middelbare Handelsschool (trade school) and subsequently followed a three-year course in tax law. In 1947 he started working for the Tax and Customs Administration in Schiedam. From 1951 he held jobs as an assistant to the managing board, assistant accountant and adjunct secretary at an economic/judicial advise agency. In 1956, he started as a financial administrator at the Reactor Centrum Nederland ().

De Goede became politically active for the Democrats 66 in 1967, when he became a member of the House of Representatives after the general election of February. He was one of the first seven members of Democrats 66 in the House. In the House he was part of a Kingdom of the Netherlands commission tasked with exploring the future relationships within the Kingdom. He served in the House until being appointed as State Secretary for Finance in the Den Uyl cabinet on 11 May 1973. During this period, he was responsible for an important revision of the Comptabiliteitswet () in 1976. De Goede stayed on until the end of the cabinet in December 1977.

Two years later De Goede was elected to the European Parliament. De Goede had been lijsttrekker for the Democrats 66 in the election. He served as member of the parliament between 17 July 1979 and 23 July 1984. De Goede returned to the national political level for a one-year stint in the Senate, where he served from 3 June 1986 to 23 June 1987.


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