Teun Struycken
| Teun Struycken | |
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| Minister of Justice | |
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In office 1950–1951 |
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| Monarch | Juliana |
| Preceded by | Ivo Samkalden |
| Succeeded by | Albert Christiaan Willem Beerman |
| Governor of the Netherlands Antilles | |
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In office 1951–1956 |
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| Monarch | Juliana |
| Preceded by | Leonard Antoon Hubert Peters |
| Succeeded by | Frans van der Valk |
| Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of the Interior | |
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In office 1956–1959 |
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| Monarch | Juliana |
| Preceded by | Ko Suurhoff |
| Succeeded by | Edzo Toxopeus |
| Member of the Dutch Council of State | |
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In office 1959–1966 |
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| Monarch | Juliana |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
Antoon Arnold Marie Struycken 27 December 1906 Breda |
| Nationality | Dutch |
Antoon Arnold Marie Struycken (27 December 1906 in Breda – 1 December 1977 in The Hague) was a Dutch politician and a member of the Catholic People's Party. He was among others Minister of Justice, Governor of the Netherlands Antilles, Minister of the Interior and a member of the Dutch Council of State. He was also alderman of Breda from 1938 to 1941, and from 1944 to 1950.
Struycken was interred in the Sint-Michielsgestel prison camp during the Second World War. After the war he was briefly Minister of Justice, in which capacity he commuted the death sentences of the "Four of Breda" (Franz Fischer, Ferdinand aus der Fünten, Joseph Kotälla, and Willy Lages) to life imprisonment.
While Governor of the Netherlands Antilles, Struycken came into conflict with the Council of Ministers of the Netherlands Antilles, who wanted to install S.W. van der Meer as Minister of Justice. Van der Meer, who had his own law practice in Curaçao, did not agree to give up his practice as a lawyer completely, prompting Struycken to refuse to install Van der Meer. The Dutch Antillean government complained to the government of the Kingdom of the Netherlands about the governor's inappropriate involvement in government matters. The Netherlands government eventually agreed with the Antillean government. This affair resulted in a reorientation of the office of Governor of the Netherlands Antilles, which increasingly began to resemble the role of the constitutional monarch in the Netherlands.
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