Education
Radboud University Nijmegen.
mayor politician prime minister
Radboud University Nijmegen.
He served as Prime Minister of the Netherlands from 24 July 1963 until 14 April 1965. Marijnen a Civil servant by occupation, he worked for the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries from 1941 until 1957. Marijnen became General-Secretary of the Roman Catholic employers" organizations in the Netherlands in 1957.
Marijnen was asked to become Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries after the Dutch general election of 1959 in the Cabinet De Quay under Prime Minister January de Quay of his own party.
Marijnen took office as the Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries on 19 May 1959. Marijnen served as acting Minister of Social Affairs and Health from 3 July 1961 until 17 July 1961 following the resignation of Charles van Rooy.
After the Dutch general election of 1963, Marijnen became Prime Minister of the Netherlands, leading the Cabinet Marijnen. He later became Mayor of The Hague serving from 16 October 1968 until his death from a heart attack on 5 April 1975.
Victor Gerard Marie Marijnen was born in Arnhem on 21 February 1917.
In 1941 he graduated in law from the Radboud University Nijmegen and went on to work in the accountancy divisions of the Ministry of Agriculture, Nature and Food Quality. In 1945 he was seconded to the Council for the Restitution of Legal Rights. In 1949 Marijnen became secretary of the Agricultural Society and in 1951 Secretary-General of the Foreign Agricultural Trade Department of the Ministry of Agriculture, Nature and Food Quality.
From 1957 he was secretary of the General Catholic Employers Association and the Catholic Federation of Employers Associations.
= Accusations regarding paedophile priests In 1956 Marijnen was chairman of a children"s home in Gelderland where children, including Henk Heithuis, were sexually abused by priests. Politics
During the Cabinet De Quay, Marijnen was Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries.
He served as Prime Minister of the Netherlands from 24 July 1963 until 14 April 1965. In 1967 he was also appointed chairman of the Post and Telecommunications Council.
On 16 October 1968 he was selected Mayor of The Hague.
Marijnen died on 5 April 1975 in The Hague, while serving as Mayor from a heart attack at the age of fifty-eight.
He served a short period as a Member of the House of Representatives from 2 July 1963 until 24 July 1963. After his premiership, Marijnen remained in active politics and became again a Member of the House of Representatives from 27 April 1965 until 14 January 1966. From 1965 to 1966 Marijnen was a member of the House of Representatives and concurrently chairman of the Board of the Rijnmond Authority.