Background
De Vries was born in Paramaribo.
De Vries was born in Paramaribo.
He studied economics at the Netherlands School of Economics and law at the University of Amsterdam.
He was also trained as an officer at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst. From 1947 to 1949, he was Chairman of the Parliament of Suriname. He was Governor of Suriname from 1965 to 1967.
In 1946, he joined De Surinaamsche Bank, where he became a member of the Management Board.