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Dr. J.E. de Quay
De Quay government
(1959 - 1963)
Jan Eduard de Quay was born in 's-Hertogenbosch on 26 August 1901. After
attending a Jesuit school in Katwijk, he graduated in psychology from the
University of Utrecht in 1926. The following year he was awarded a doctorate
for his thesis on the contribution of sensory and motor factors to the
learning and labour process.
In 1928 he was appointed lecturer in psychotechnology at the Catholic college of higher education in Tilburg (now the University of Tilburg) and in 1933 professor of business economics and psychotechnology at the same institution.
During the pre-war mobilisation of the Netherlands (1939-1940) Mr De Quay became a lieutenant in the reserve. In July 1940 he formed the Triumvirate of the controversial nationalist Dutch Union with L. Einthoven and J. Linthorst Homan. In May and June of the same year he was government commissioner for labour at the Ministry of Social Affairs.
From July 1942 to June 1943 he was interned in Haaren, after which he went into hiding from the occupation authorities. In October 1944, following the liberation of the area south of the rivers, he became chairman of the Board of Commissioners for Agriculture, Industry and Trade, set up to restore the national economy.
Thereafter, Mr De Quay was Defence Minister in the second Gerbrandy administration between 5 April and 23 June 1945. This was followed by thirteen years as Queens Commissioner in the province of North Brabant, from 1946 to 1959.
Finally, Mr De Quay became from 19 May 1959 to 24 July 1963 Prime Minister and Minister of General Affairs in the government that bore his name.
After this he twice represented the KVP as a member of the Upper House of Parliament (from 1963 to 1966 and from 1967 to 1969). During the Zijlstra administration he was Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Transport, Public Works and Water Management from 22 November 1966 to 5 April 1967.
He died in Beers (North Brabant) on 4 July 1985.
In 1928 he was appointed lecturer in psychotechnology at the Catholic college of higher education in Tilburg (now the University of Tilburg) and in 1933 professor of business economics and psychotechnology at the same institution.
During the pre-war mobilisation of the Netherlands (1939-1940) Mr De Quay became a lieutenant in the reserve. In July 1940 he formed the Triumvirate of the controversial nationalist Dutch Union with L. Einthoven and J. Linthorst Homan. In May and June of the same year he was government commissioner for labour at the Ministry of Social Affairs.
From July 1942 to June 1943 he was interned in Haaren, after which he went into hiding from the occupation authorities. In October 1944, following the liberation of the area south of the rivers, he became chairman of the Board of Commissioners for Agriculture, Industry and Trade, set up to restore the national economy.
Thereafter, Mr De Quay was Defence Minister in the second Gerbrandy administration between 5 April and 23 June 1945. This was followed by thirteen years as Queens Commissioner in the province of North Brabant, from 1946 to 1959.
Finally, Mr De Quay became from 19 May 1959 to 24 July 1963 Prime Minister and Minister of General Affairs in the government that bore his name.
After this he twice represented the KVP as a member of the Upper House of Parliament (from 1963 to 1966 and from 1967 to 1969). During the Zijlstra administration he was Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Transport, Public Works and Water Management from 22 November 1966 to 5 April 1967.
He died in Beers (North Brabant) on 4 July 1985.