Schermerhorn-Drees cabinet

The Schermerhorn-Drees cabinet was in office in the Netherlands from 24 June 1945 until 3 July 1946.

The Schermerhorn-Drees cabinet, the first Dutch cabinet after World War II, was appointed by Queen Wilhelmina just a month after the Netherlands were liberated by the Allied forces. It was a royal cabinet (which means that the cabinet is appointed by the Queen, and is not the result of an election) and was sometimes referred to as an emergency-cabinet, in order to reorganize the state after the German occupation of the Netherlands.

Dutch Parliament did not function yet and would not become functional until November 1945.

The Schermerhorn-Drees cabinet consisted of ministers from the SDAP (which in 1946 merged with the VDB and the CDU into the PvdA, which would become the post-war Labour Party), the CHU-minister Dr. Piet Lieftinck (who would become a member of the PvdA on 9 February 1946), the ARP and the RKSP (named the KVP on 22 December 1945). Prime Minister Willem Schermerhorn was a member of the VDB, but would later become a member of the PvdA. Deputy Prime Minister Willem Drees was a member of the SDAP.

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