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Lubbers, R. F. M

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Personal name headingLubbers, R. F. M.
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Variant(s)Lubbers, Rudolphus Franciscus Marie
Lubbers, Ruud
Other standard no.0000000109757489
Birth date1939-05-07
Death date2018-02-14
Place of birthRotterdam (Netherlands)
Place of deathRotterdam (Netherlands)
Field of activityNetherlands--Politics and government Economics
AffiliationNetherlands. Minister-President
Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
Christen-Democratisch AppeĢ€l (Netherlands)
Profession or occupationPoliticians Economists
Found inBedrijven in moeilijkheden, 1980 (a.e.) t.p. (Drs. R. F. M. Lubbers)
Joustra, A. Ruud Lubbers, 1989: p. 12 (Rudolphus Franciscus Marie Lubbers, b. 5-7-39)
Washington post WWW site, viewed Feb. 15, 2018 (Ruud Lubbers, the Netherlands' longest-serving prime minister, died Feb. 14 [2018] in Rotterdam; he was 78; led a conservative Dutch government from 1982 to 1994; in 2005 he was forced to step down as U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees; economist by training; after leaving national politics, he taught part-time at the universities of Tilburg and Harvard until 2001, when U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan named him High Commissioner for Refugees; Rudolphus Franciscus Marie Lubbers was born in Rotterdam on May 7, 1939, to a wealthy contractor's family; studied economics at Erasmus University in Rotterdam and, as a young adult, helped manage the business, Hollandia BV; he and a brother became its co-directors in 1965; rose through the ranks of several powerful Christian employers' associations and the national Catholic political party; it merged with two other closely allied Protestant parties in 1980 to form the Christian Democrats; Mr. Lubbers was appointed economic affairs minister in 1973 at age 34, a post he held until 1977; after the new Christian Democratic Alliance won elections in 1977, Mr. Lubbers headed its first parliamentary faction)
LC database, Feb. 15, 2018 (access point: Lubbers, R.F.M.; usage: R.F.M. Lubbers, Ruud Lubbers; associated resources in Dutch and English)
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