Marjet Joan Ockels (12 November 1943 – 14 May 2016) was a Dutch politician. She was a member of the House of Representatives between 1991 and 1994. She started as member of the Labour Party, but left in 1993 and continued as an independent.

Career

Ockels was born on 12 November 1943 in Almelo. She worked at a general practice clinic for twenty years. She was a member of the municipal council of Ulrum for the Labour Party between 3 September 1982 and 1 January 1990, from 29 April 1986 she concurrently served as alderwoman for education, social affairs, employment and fishery. Afterwards she continued as a member of the municipal council of the expanded municipality of Ulrum, which later became the De Marne. Her time in office ended on 12 April 1994. Ockels served in the House of Representatives from 4 June 1991 to 17 May 1994. On 21 September 1993 she left the Labour party and continued as an independent. She was discontent with the internal relations within the party. Fellow Labour Party MPs Frans Moor and Piet de Visser had left the party a year before, also citing internal party differences. For the

1994 Dutch general election General elections were held in the Netherlands on 3 May 1994. Dieter Nohlen & Philip Stöver (2010) ''Elections in Europe: A data handbook'', p1396 The Labour Party emerged as the largest party, winning 37 of the 150 seats in the House of Repre ...

she was the third candidate on the list of the ; the party failed to obtain a seat in the House of Representatives. Her brother was astronaut

Wubbo Ockels Wubbo Johannes Ockels (28 March 1946 – 18 May 2014) was a Dutch physicist and astronaut with the European Space Agency who, in 1985, became the first Dutch citizen in space when he flew on STS-61-A as a payload specialist. He later becam ...

. She died in

Zoutkamp Zoutkamp is a village in the municipality Het Hogeland which is part of the province Groningen in the Netherlands. The village started as a sconce. During the Dutch Revolt, it was the site of the Battle of Zoutkamp. Later it became a fishing vi ...

on 14 May 2016, aged 72.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Ockels, Marjet 1943 births 2016 deaths Independent politicians in the Netherlands Labour Party (Netherlands) politicians Members of the House of Representatives (Netherlands) Municipal councillors in Groningen (province) People from Almelo