Joris in 't Veld
| Joris in 't Veld | |
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| Member of the Senate | |
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In office June 7, 1931 – April 1, 1937 |
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| Monarch | Wilhelmina |
| Mayor of Zaandam | |
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In office April 1, 1937 – March 3, 1941 |
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| Monarch | Wilhelmina |
| Member of the Senate | |
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In office June 8, 1937 – August 7, 1948 |
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| Monarch | Wilhelmina |
| Mayor of Zaandam | |
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In office May 6, 1945 – March 1, 1948 |
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| Monarch | Wilhelmina |
| Ministers of Housing and Spatial Planning | |
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In office March 1, 1948 – September 2, 1952 |
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| Monarch | Juliana |
| Prime Minister | Louis Beel, Willem Drees |
| Preceded by | Lambertus Neher |
| Succeeded by | Herman Witte |
| Member of the Senate | |
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In office July 15, 1952 – October 1, 1962 |
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| Monarch | Juliana |
| Member of the Dutch Council of State | |
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In office October 1, 1964 – August 1, 1970 |
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| Monarch | Juliana |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
Joris in "t Veld July 5, 1885 Dubbeldam, Netherlands |
| Died | February 15, 1982 (aged 96) 's-Gravenhage, Netherlands |
| Nationality | Dutch |
| Political party |
SDAP (1918-1946) Labour Party (from 1946) |
| Alma mater | Leiden University (PhD) |
| Occupation | Civil servant, Politician Mayor, Professor |
Joris in 't Veld (5 July 1885 in Dubbeldam – 15 February 1981 in The Hague) was a Dutch Social Democratic politician, Minister, Professor at the Leiden University, Member of the Council of State, administer at Humanitas and the Humanistisch Verbond, and one of the founders of the Public administration in The Netherlands. In 1937 he succeeded Kornelis ter Laan as mayor of Zaandam, and the same year became member of the Senate for the Social Democratic Workers' Party (SDAP). As Labour Party Minister of Reconstruction and Public housing in the First Beel cabinet and First Drees cabinet he established the Reconstruction Bill.
In 't Veld was born in Dubbeldam (now part of Dordrecht), in the same village where his father Cornelis in 't Veld was born and had worked as labourer and later greengrocer. After attending the mulo (junior high school) he started working as civil servant in the town hall of Dordrecht. He continued his studies in his spare time completing the training for municipal candidate in 1916, and in 1921 passing the state examination. Beside his work he continued to study law at Leiden University from 1921 until 1926. On July 11, 1929 he obtained his doctorate in law at the Leiden University with a thesis entitled "Nieuwe vormen van decentralisatie." (New forms of decentralization).
After his first job at the municipality of Dordrecht from 1910 to 1914, he moved to Municipality of Rotterdam, where he initially start as clerk at Public Works. He gradually got promoted in the civil service until he became acting municipal secretary and head of the Housing Department from 1936 to 1937. A year later in 1937 he succeeded Kornelis ter Laan as mayor of Zaandam.
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