Petrus Antonius Josephus Maria "Piet" Steenkamp (8 March 1925 – 8 January 2016) was a Dutch politician of the
Christian Democratic Appeal
The Christian Democratic Appeal ( nl, Christen-Democratisch Appèl, ; CDA) is a Christian-democratic political party in the Netherlands. It was originally formed in 1977 from a confederation of the Catholic People's Party, the Anti-Revolutionary ...
(CDA) party.
From 1949 to 1954, Steenkamp was a business economics employee in his father's factory, the N.V. Uithoornse Bacon and Conservenfabriek "De Hoorn". He was then a member of the Board of Directors of this company until September 1, 1966. He introduced the distribution of profits and employee participation in the plant.
He played an important role in the formation of the party and is therefore referred to as the father of the CDA. He was president of the Dutch
Senate
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from 1983 to 1991. He was succeeded by
Herman Tjeenk Willink
Herman Diederik Tjeenk Willink (born 23 January 1942) is a retired Dutch politician of the Labour Party (PvdA) and jurist. He was granted the honorary title of Minister of State on 21 December 2012.
Tjeenk Willink served as a Member of the S ...
.
His son
Jan-Benedict is a renowned marketing scholar, author and
distinguished professor
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of Marketing at
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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.
He died in
Eindhoven
Eindhoven () is a city and municipality in the Netherlands, located in the southern province of North Brabant of which it is its largest. With a population of 238,326 on 1 January 2022,[North Brabant
North Brabant ( nl, Noord-Brabant ; Brabantian: ; ), also unofficially called Brabant, is a province in the south of the Netherlands. It borders the provinces of South Holland and Gelderland to the north, Limburg to the east, Zeeland to the we ...]
on 8 January 2016, 90 years old.
''Geestelijk vader CDA Piet Steenkamp (90) overleden.''
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P.A.J.M. (Piet) Steenkamp
Parlement & Politiek
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P.A.J.M. (Piet) Steenkamp
Eerste Kamer der Staten-Generaal
1925 births
2016 deaths
Catholic People's Party politicians
20th-century Dutch politicians
Christian Democratic Appeal politicians
Chairmen of the Christian Democratic Appeal
Commanders of the Order of Orange-Nassau
Commanders of the Order of the Netherlands Lion
Dutch corporate directors
Dutch businesspeople
Dutch economists
20th-century Dutch historians
Dutch Roman Catholics
Dutch legal scholars
Dutch political party founders
Social historians
Academic staff of the Eindhoven University of Technology
Members of the Senate (Netherlands)
People from Uithoorn
People from Eindhoven
Presidents of the Senate (Netherlands)
Tilburg University alumni
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