Theodoor Philibert "Theo" Tromp (9 June 1903,
Voorburg
Voorburg is a town and former municipality in the west part of the province of South Holland, Netherlands. Together with Leidschendam and Stompwijk, it makes up the municipality Leidschendam-Voorburg. It has a population of about 39,000 people ...
– 1 June 1984,
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,[mechanical engineer
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working at
Philips
Koninklijke Philips N.V. (), commonly shortened to Philips, is a Dutch multinational conglomerate corporation that was founded in Eindhoven in 1891. Since 1997, it has been mostly headquartered in Amsterdam, though the Benelux headquarters i ...
since 1927, who in 1945, in the last
Dutch government in exile
The Dutch government-in-exile ( nl, Nederlandse regering in ballingschap), also known as the London Cabinet ( nl, Londens kabinet), was the government in exile of the Netherlands, supervised by Queen Wilhelmina, that fled to London after the Germ ...
(cabinet-
Gerbrandy III), was
Minister of Water Management. Before that he already was a member of the College of Agriculture, Trade and Industry in the liberated south. From 1947 he was a member of Philips' board of directors, of which he was vice president from 1957 until his retirement in 1967. He was known to Philips as a fairly authoritarian manager.
1903 births
1984 deaths
Directors of Philips
Dutch corporate directors
20th-century Dutch engineers
Ministers of Transport and Water Management of the Netherlands
Independent politicians in the Netherlands
People from Voorburg
Delft University of Technology alumni
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