Derk Gerard Willem Spitzen (18 March 1896,

Wageningen Wageningen () is a municipality and a historic city in the central Netherlands, in the province of Gelderland. It is famous for Wageningen University, which specialises in life sciences. The municipality had a population of in , of which many t ...

– 26 January 1957,

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) was a Dutch

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Mr. D.G.W. Spitzen
at www.parlement.com 1896 births 1957 deaths Ministers of Transport and Water Management of the Netherlands People from Wageningen Leiden University alumni {{Netherlands-politician-stub