Roelof Kruisinga

Roelof Kruisinga (1978)

Roelof Johannes Hendrik Kruisinga (27 August 1922 – 7 December 2012) was a Dutch physician and politician.^[1]

Kruisinga was born in Grijpskerk. His family was doopsgezind, but Kruisinga decided not to be baptized and to become a member of the Dutch Reformed Church. As a physician he specialised in otolaryngology and he received his doctorate at the University of Groningen in 1955. He held different positions as a physician before he became State Secretary for the Ministry of Social Affairs and Health Care and subsequently State Secretary for the Ministry of Transport, Public Works and Water Management. From 1971 to 1977 he was leader of the Christian Historical Union. He was Minister of Defense under Prime Minister Dries van Agt from 1977 to 1978. In the early eighties he became vice-president of the World Health Organization. Afterwards he became a member of the Senate, serving from 1981 to 1991 and representing the Christian Democratic Appeal. He died, aged 90, in Wassenaar.

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Preceded by Bram Stemerdink	Minister of Defence 1977-78	Succeeded by Jan de Koning

Ministers of Defence of the Netherlands

Ministry of Defence

Lambooij Deckers Colijn Van Dijk Dijxhoorn Van Boeijen Furstner Van Lidth de Jeude De Booy De Quay Meynen Fiévez Schagen van Leeuwen Schokking s'Jacob Staf Van den Bergh De Quay Visser De Jong Den Toom De Koster Vredeling Stemerdink Kruisinga De Koning Scholten De Geus Van Mierlo De Ruiter Van Eekelen Bukman Bolkestein Ter Beek Voorhoeve De Grave Korthals Kamp Van Middelkoop Hillen Hennis-Plasschaert

De Jong cabinet (1967-1971)

^{Preceded: Zijlstra cabinet · Succeed: First Biesheuvel cabinet}

Prime Minister	Piet de Jong General Affairs

Deputy Prime Ministers	Johan Witteveen Finance Joop Bakker Transport, Public Works and Water Management and Surinamese and Netherlands Antilles Affairs

Ministers	Henk Beernink Interior Joseph Luns Foreign Affairs Carel Polak Justice Leo de Block Economic Affairs) (1967-1970 Piet de Jong Economic Affairs) (Acting Roelof Nelissen Economic Affairs) (from 1970 Willem den Toom Defence Bauke Roolvink Social Affairs and Health Gerard Veringa Education and Science Pierre Lardinois Agriculture and Fisheries Wim Schut Housing and Spatial Planning Marga Klompé Culture, Recreation and Social work

Minister without portfolio	Berend Jan Udink Development Cooperation

State Secretaries	Chris van Veen Interior Hans de Koster Foreign Affairs Frits Grapperhaus Finance Klaas Wiersma Justice) (from 1970 Louis van Son Economic Affairs Joop Haex Defence Adri van Es Defence Anthony Duynstee Defence Roelof Kruisinga Social Affairs and Health Hans Grosheide Education and Science Mike Keyzer Transport, Public Works and Water Management Hein van de Poel Culture, Recreation and Social work

Authority control	WorldCat Identities VIAF: 281702465 BPN: 08047120

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