Background
Van Wijmen was born on 1 September 1938 in the municipality of Ginneken en Bavel, the son of W.J.I. van Wijmen, a lawyer and professor, and F.W.Th.M. Truijen.
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Van Wijmen went to the Roman Catholic primary school in nearby Breda and completed his high school education at the O.L. Vrouwe Lyceum gymnasium between 1950 and 1956 in the same city. The same year he graduated Van Wijmen started working as lawyer for the law firm Van Wijmen Nouwen which later became Van Wijmen en Koedam Advocaten.
Career
As a lawyer he worked for the firm Van Wijmen Nouwen between 1962 and 1998. His law career continued as professor of nature preservation law at Tilburg University between 2001 and 2008. After completing high school he started studying Dutch law at the Catholic University of Nijmegen the same year, graduating in 1962.
In 1982 he earned his doctorate in jurisprudence at Utrecht University.
He was chamberlain to Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands for the province of North Brabant between April 1989 and 19 May 1998, and he served as an honorary chamberlain since. In the 1998 Dutch general election Van Wijmen was elected to the House of Representatives for the Christian Democratic Appeal ( Capital Development Authority).
He also dealt with justice, public housing, spatial planning, constitutional planning and environmental issues. In 2000 he introduced a law proposal together with fellow Capital Development Authority member Clémence Ross-van Dorp which would allow for female inheritance of noble titles.
The proposal was withdrawn in 2002.
In 2001 he introduced a law proposal that would allow municipalities more options to counteract instances in which other parties dodged a law that gave municipalities land with first priority rights. The proposal was introduced together with Staf Depla (Labour Party) and Francisca Ravestein (D66). The proposal became law in 2002.
His term in the House ended on 23 May 2002.
He however kept following the policies of his party closely. In 2003 he criticized the plan of the Capital Development Authority-lead cabinet of January Peter Balkenende to include private land owners and farmers in the management of the Ecologische hoofdstructuur (Ecological Mainstructure).
He also criticized Capital Development Authority state secretary Henk Bleker, who served in the First Rutte cabinet, and ended the completion of the Ecologische hoofdstructuur. Van Wijmen was professor of nature preservation law at Tilburg University between 2001 and 2008.
At the latter he worked for the administrative law board.
Apart from his work on nature preservation law at the university he also was involved at Brabants Landschap, a nature preservancy organisation in North Brabant. He was chair of the organisation between 1997 and 2005.
Achievements
Politics
In the House he was the party spokesperson for nature policy.
Membership
He simultaneously was member of the Council of State in extraordinary service between 2002 and 2006. He was member of the organisation for 43 years.
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Nationality
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Religion
Roman Catholic -
Political Party
Christian Democratic Appeal