Maartje Lena "Marleen" de Pater-van der Meer (19 November 1950 – 13 December 2015) was a Dutch politician, she served as member of the

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for the

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between 2001 and 2010. Before her time in the House she was active in the municipal politics of

Zutphen Zutphen () is a city and municipality located in the province of Gelderland, Netherlands. It lies some 30 km northeast of Arnhem, on the eastern bank of the river Ijssel at the point where it is joined by the Berkel. First mentioned in the 1 ...

. After her period as MP she was interim mayor of

Muiden Muiden () is a city and former municipality in the Netherlands, in the province of North Holland. It lies at the mouth of the Vecht and is in an area called the Vechtstreek. Since 2016, Muiden has been part of the new municipality of Gooise Meren ...

until her death.

Career

Van der Meer was born on 19 November 1950 in

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. She followed her primary and secondary education in

Spijkenisse Spijkenisse () is a city in the province of South Holland, Netherlands. Following an administrative reform in 2015, it is part of the municipality of Nissewaard, and has a population of 72,500. It covers an area of of which is water. It is part ...

obtaining her diploma in 1966. Afterwards she studied childcare at the vocational university in

Zetten Zetten is a village in the Overbetuwe municipality, Gelderland, Netherlands. The village is located in the Betuwe. This is also the base of the (forensic) youth-clinic Ottho Gerhard Heldringstichting, founded as the "Steenbeek" asylum for refo ...

between 1967 and 1971. Van der Meer married in 1972 and took the name of her husband. She was a teacher between 1972 and 1974 and again between 1983 and 1989. Van der Meer became member of the

Anti-Revolutionary Party The Anti-Revolutionary Party ( nl, Anti-Revolutionaire Partij, ARP) was a Protestant conservative and Christian democratic political party in the Netherlands. The party was founded in 1879 by Abraham Kuyper, a neo-Calvinist theologian and m ...

in 1970. She joined the municipal council of

for the party in 1980 and served for nearly 18 years. Between 1990 and 1998 she was concurrently alderman, serving six of those years as deputy mayor. From 1999 to 2001 she was interim director of the Stichting "Kerk en Wereld". In 2001 de Pater-van der Meer was elected to the

for the

. She was member between 6 February 2001 and 17 June 2010. In the House she concerned herself with the fight against human trafficking and with raising the legal age of prostitution. She was invested as a Knight of the

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on occasion of her departure from the House on 16 June 2010. After her time at the national political level De Pater-van der Meer returned to municipal politics and became interim mayor of

in September 2010. She served until her death in Zutphen on 13 December 2015. De Pater-van der Meer had been appointed to oversee the merger of the municipalities of Muiden,

Bussum Bussum () is a commuter town and former municipality in the Gooi region in the south east of the province of North Holland in the Netherlands near Hilversum. Since 2016, Bussum has been part of the new municipality of Gooise Meren. Bussum had a ...

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and

Weesp Weesp () is a city, an urban area in the municipality of Amsterdam and a former municipality in the province of North Holland, Netherlands. It had a population of in . It lies on the river Vecht and next to the Amsterdam–Rhine Canal in an are ...

References

External links

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Parlement.com biography
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