Background
Van Tecklenburg was born in Utrecht.
Van Tecklenburg was born in Utrecht.
He acquired wealth by marrying the daughter of a wealthy margarine manufacturer, Anton Jurgens. With that help he was elected to the Dutch House of Representatives from the Grave Constituency. He served as his party"s treasurer, and in 1901 he became the Minister of Finance in the ARP"s Kuyper cabinet.
However the only significant legislation that he proposed was a protectionist Tariff Acting, and that came so late in his tenure, that it died when the government lost the elections on 19 August 1905.
He was a staunch Roman Catholic and was initially a member of the conservative wing of the Catholic party.
