| Charles Ruijs de Beerenbrouck | |
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| In office 10 August 1929 – 26 May 1933 |
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| Preceded by | Dirk Jan de Geer |
| Succeeded by | Hendrik Colijn |
| Constituency | Gulpen (Limburg) |
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| In office 9 September 1918 – 4 August 1925 |
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| Preceded by | Pieter Cort van der Linden |
| Succeeded by | Hendrik Colijn |
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| Born | December 1, 1873 Roermond, Netherlands |
| Died | April 17, 1936 (aged 62) Utrecht, Netherlands |
| Political party | Roomsch-Katholieke Staatspartij |
| Spouse | Jkvr. Maria Josephina Ernestina Alexandrina van der Heyden |
| Religion | Roman Catholic |
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Jonkheer Charles Joseph Maria Ruijs de Beerenbrouck (born December 1, 1873 – died April 17, 1936) was Prime Minister of the Netherlands from 1918 to 1925 and again from 1929 to 1933. The Prime minister of the Netherlands is the Head of government of the Netherlands and is the chair of the Dutch cabinet, and Events 612 BC - Killing of Sinsharishkun, King of Assyrian Empire Year 1929 ( MCMXXIX) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Events 451 - The Battle of Avarayr between Armenian rebels and the Sassanid Empire takes place Year 1933 ( MCMXXXIII) was a Common year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Jonkheer Dirk Jan de Geer (14 December 1870 – 28 November 1960 was a lawyer conservative statesman and prime minister of The Netherlands (1926–1929 Hendrikus (Hendrik Colijn (22 June 1869 – 18 September 1944 was a successful Dutch soldier businessman and politician Gulpen is a village in the Dutch province of Limburg. It is approximately midway between the Dutch city of Maastricht and the German city of Aachen Limburg ( Dutch: (Nederlands Limburg is the southern-most of the twelve provinces of the Netherlands. The Prime minister of the Netherlands is the Head of government of the Netherlands and is the chair of the Dutch cabinet, and Events 1000 - Battle of Svolder, Viking Age. 1379 - Treaty of Neuberg, splitting the Austrian Year 1918 ( MCMXVIII) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common Events 70 - The Destruction of the Second Temple in Jerusalem by the Romans. Year 1925 ( MCMXXV) was a Common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Pieter Wilhelm Adriaan Cort van der Linden (14 May 1846 &ndash 15 July 1935 was a Dutch Political figure. Hendrikus (Hendrik Colijn (22 June 1869 – 18 September 1944 was a successful Dutch soldier businessman and politician Events 800 - Charlemagne judges the accusations against Pope Leo III in the Vatican Year 1873 ( MDCCCLXXIII) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common Roermond ( is a city a Municipality, and a diocese in the southeastern part of the Netherlands. The Netherlands ( Dutch:, ˈnedərlɑnt is the European part of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, which consists of the Netherlands the Netherlands Events 69 - After the First Battle of Bedriacum, Vitellius becomes Roman Emperor. Year 1936 ( MCMXXXVI) was a Leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Utrecht ( city and municipality is the capital and most populous city of the Dutch province of Utrecht. The Netherlands ( Dutch:, ˈnedərlɑnt is the European part of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, which consists of the Netherlands the Netherlands Roman-Catholic Political Party (Rooms-Katholieke Staatspartij RKSP was a Dutch Catholic Christian-Democratic Political party. Jonkheer (female equivalent Jonkvrouw is a Dutch Honorific of nobility Jonkheer (female equivalent Jonkvrouw is a Dutch Honorific of nobility Events 800 - Charlemagne judges the accusations against Pope Leo III in the Vatican Year 1873 ( MDCCCLXXIII) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common Events 69 - After the First Battle of Bedriacum, Vitellius becomes Roman Emperor. Year 1936 ( MCMXXXVI) was a Leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. The Prime minister of the Netherlands is the Head of government of the Netherlands and is the chair of the Dutch cabinet, and Year 1918 ( MCMXVIII) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common Year 1925 ( MCMXXV) was a Common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Year 1929 ( MCMXXIX) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Year 1933 ( MCMXXXIII) was a Common year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. He was a member of the Roman Catholic RKSP. Roman-Catholic Political Party (Rooms-Katholieke Staatspartij RKSP was a Dutch Catholic Christian-Democratic Political party.
Charles Joseph Maria Ruijs de Beerenbrouck was born on December 1, 1873 in Roermond, a town with a Bishop's see in the province of Limburg, in the very south of The Netherlands. Events 800 - Charlemagne judges the accusations against Pope Leo III in the Vatican Year 1873 ( MDCCCLXXIII) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common Roermond ( is a city a Municipality, and a diocese in the southeastern part of the Netherlands. A bishop is an ordained or consecrated member of the Christian clergy who is generally entrusted with a position of authority and oversight An episcopal see is the ecclesiastical domain of authority of a Bishop. Limburg ( Dutch: (Nederlands Limburg is the southern-most of the twelve provinces of the Netherlands. The Netherlands ( Dutch:, ˈnedərlɑnt is the European part of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, which consists of the Netherlands the Netherlands Born into an aristocratic family, he grew up in a predominantly Roman Catholic community and went to school in Maastricht and in The Hague. Maastricht ( Dutch; Limburgish and city dialect Mestreech; French: Maestricht or Maëstricht; Spanish: He attended the Utrecht University and in 1895 Ruijs de Beerenbrouck obtained his master's degree in law at the Leiden University. Utrecht University ( Universiteit Utrecht in Dutch) is a University in Utrecht, The Netherlands. Leiden University (Universiteit Leiden located in the city of Leiden, is the oldest University in The Netherlands.
He started his career in 1896 as a lawyer in Maastricht. A lawyer, according to Black's Law Dictionary, is "a person learned in the law as an attorney, Counsel or Solicitor; a person In 1899 Ruijs de Beerenbrouck became a member of the Maastricht City council and in 1905 he was elected as a member of parliament (in Dutch called the Tweede Kamer). A city council is a form of Local government, usually covering a City or other Urban area, such as a Town. TalkParliament#Screen-size. -->A  parliament is a Legislature, especially in those Dutch ( is a West Germanic language spoken by around 24 million people 22 million of which are from the Netherlands, Belgium and Suriname The Tweede Kamer der Staten-Generaal ( literally "Second Chamber of the States-General" short Tweede Kamer, is the Dutch Lower house. Ruijs de Beerenbrouck remained a city councillor and a member of parliament until May 16, 1918, when he became Governor (in other Dutch Provinces called a Queen's Commissioner) of the provincie of Limburg. A councillor or councilor ( Cllr, Coun, Clr or Cr for short is a member of a Local government council such as a Events 1204 - Baldwin IX Count of Flanders is crowned as the first Emperor of the Latin Empire. Year 1918 ( MCMXVIII) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common A governor is a governing official usually the executive (at least nominally to different degrees also politically and administratively of a non-sovereign level of government The Netherlands ( Dutch:, ˈnedərlɑnt is the European part of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, which consists of the Netherlands the Netherlands A province is a territorial unit almost always an Administrative division. The King's Commissioner (Commissaris van de Koning is the head of a Province in the Netherlands, who is chairman of both the Provinciale Staten (PS the
Ruijs de Beerenbrouck did not stay in office as Governor for long, as on September 9, 1918 he was appointed as Prime Minister of the Netherlands. Events 1000 - Battle of Svolder, Viking Age. 1379 - Treaty of Neuberg, splitting the Austrian Year 1918 ( MCMXVIII) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common The Prime minister of the Netherlands is the Head of government of the Netherlands and is the chair of the Dutch cabinet, and
As Prime Minister he had to deal with the aftermath of World War I. World War I (abbreviated WWI; also known as the First World War, the Great War, and the War to End All Although The Netherlands remained neutral during the conflict, Ruijs de Beerenbrouck nevertheless was facing several problems, especially the return of German troops through the province of Limburg and the exile of the German emperor Wilhelm II. Germany, officially the Federal Republic of Germany ( ˈbʊndəsʁepuˌbliːk ˈdɔʏtʃlant is a Country in Central Europe. An emperor (from the Latin " Imperator " is a (male Monarch, usually the sovereign ruler of an Empire or another type of
In November 1918 the leader of the Sociaal Democratische Arbeiders Partij (SDAP) (Social-Democratic Labour Party), Pieter Jelles Troelstra, inspired by the Russian Revolution of 1917 and the German Revolution of 1918 called for a socialist revolution among the working class. The Social Democratic Workers' Party (in Dutch: Sociaal Democratische Arbeiders Partij SDAP was a Dutch socialist Political party and a predecessor Pieter Jelles Troelstra ( Leeuwarden, 20 April 1860 – The Hague, 12 May 1930) was a Dutch politician See also Russian Revolution (1905 The Russian Revolution of 1916 refers to a series of popular revolutions in Russia, and the events surrounding them Socialism refers to a broad set of economic theories of social organization advocating state or collective ownership and administration of the Means of production and distribution Fortunately for Ruijs de Beerenbrouck, the revolution attempt of Troelstra met with little enthusiasm. However, in order to satisfy the working class, he enacted several social reforms.
From 1925 to 1929 Ruijs de Beerenbrouck was chairman of the Tweede Kamer.
During his third cabinet Ruijs de Beerenbrouck had to deal with the worldwide Great Depression of 1929 and the early 1930s, which had crippling effects on the Dutch economy, effects which lasted longer than they did in most European countries. An economic system is a System that involves the production, distribution and consumption of goods and services between The depression lead to large unemployment and poverty, as well as increasing social unrest. Ruijs de Beerenbrouck was forced to cut down government expenses and to devaluate the national currency, the Guilder, but these measures only worsened the effects of the economic crisis.
In February 1933 the third cabinet Ruijs de Beerenbrouck ordered the bombing of the navy cruiser "De Zeven Provinciën", when sailors aboard the cruiser, cruising near Sumatra, mutinied because of the cutting of their wages. Sumatra (also spelled Sumatera) is the sixth largest island in the world (approximately 470000 km² and is the largest island entirely in Indonesia (two Twenty three mutineers were killed, resulting in a prolonged controversy and recriminations (see Mutiny on "De Zeven Provinciën"). Mutiny on De Zeven Provinciën More than any event in its career including even her demise in active fighting this ship is remembered especially for the mutiny which
In 1933 Ruijs de Beerenbrouck again became chairman of the Tweede Kamer. He remained chairman of the Tweede Kamer until his death.
Ruijs de Beerenbrouck died on April 17, 1936 in Utrecht. Events 69 - After the First Battle of Bedriacum, Vitellius becomes Roman Emperor. Year 1936 ( MCMXXXVI) was a Leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Utrecht ( city and municipality is the capital and most populous city of the Dutch province of Utrecht.