Background
SCHUTTE, Gert Jan was born on May 24, 1939 in Nieuwpoort. Parents: Aart Schutte and Johanna Hendrika Schutte (née Groeneweg).
SCHUTTE, Gert Jan was born on May 24, 1939 in Nieuwpoort. Parents: Aart Schutte and Johanna Hendrika Schutte (née Groeneweg).
Spoken languages: Dutch.
After finishing high school in 1956 Schutte started working as a civil servant for the municipality of Giessenburg. He would work in the same function for the municipalities of Schoonhoven, Elst en Nieuwpoort. In 1968 until 1981 he was deputy-secretary, the second highest civil servant, of the municipality of Zeist.
In the same years he followed a number of educations specializing in governing in local governments.
From 1969 until 1974 he also taught Law for Municipalities. In 1981 he was elected in the Dutch House of Representatives.
In 1989 the party did get a second seat in Parliament and until his resignment in 2001 he worked together with Eimert van Middelkoop. In this years Schutte would be known as the Constitutional law conscience of the Parliament.
He felt that other politicians didn"t pay enough attention to the Constitutional laws.
Schutte was a columnist of the Friesch Dagblad and the Persunie.
Dutch Reformed
From 1974 until 1978 Schutte became a member of the States-Provincial of the province of Utrecht for the Reformed Political League. He was the only representative of his party and, because of that, Parliamentary group leader.
He was a member of the Dutch House of Representatives for the Reformed Political League and in the end for the ChristianUnion. After his resignment Schutte served as a member of the Select Board. He also investigated fraud of a number of Dutch institutions in the Higher education and was a member of the committee which was involved in preparing the Treaty establishing a Constitution for Europe.
Spouse Maria de Hoop, 1963. Children: Els, Arjen. Jaco, Hans, GertJan, Marieke.