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Folkert Evert Posthuma (20 May 1874,
Leeuwarden Leeuwarden (; fy, Ljouwert, longname=yes /; Town Frisian: ''Liwwadden''; Leeuwarder dialect: ''Leewarden'') is a city and municipality in Friesland, Netherlands, with a population of 123,107 (2019). It is the provincial capital and seat of the ...
– 3 June 1943,
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) was a Dutch
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. During
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, he was the Minister of Agriculture, Industry and Trade in the government of Cort van der Linden and as such responsible for the food distribution. Before and after his ministership he held a senior management position at the insurance company
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. In the 1930s he became a sympathiser, but not a member, of the NSB. In 1943 he was asked by NSB leader Anton Mussert to become his representative for agriculture but was assassinated later that year by the Dutch resistance and communist Jan Verleun.


See also

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List of Dutch politicians A list of most notable Dutch politicians, party affiliation given. A *Willem Aantjes - ARP / CDA * Gijs van Aardenne - VVD *Jan van Aartsen - VVD *Jozias van Aartsen - VVD *Ahmed Aboutaleb - PvdA *Karin Adelmund - PvdA *Fleur Agema - LPF ...


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1874 births 1943 deaths Ministers of Economic Affairs of the Netherlands Ministers of agriculture of the Netherlands Assassinated Dutch politicians Dutch agronomists National Socialist Movement in the Netherlands politicians Politicians from Leeuwarden Wageningen University and Research alumni Executed Dutch collaborators with Nazi Germany Nazis assassinated by the Dutch resistance People murdered in the Netherlands Politicians assassinated in the 1940s {{Netherlands-politician-stub