Wim Kolijn (12 January 1944 – 2 December 2015) was a Dutch politician of the

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(SGP). Kolijn was born in

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. He was SGP chairman between 2000 and 2011. He also was the leader of the SGP Fraction of the Provincial States of Zeeland, of which he was member for 21 years. He was a citizen of the city of Terneuzen and served on its municipal council for twelve years. Kolijn was trained as a mechanical engineer and worked at the company

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from 1966 to 2005. He became a member of the church council of the

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to Terneuzen in 2008. In 2010, he also became an

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. Kolijn died at the age of 71 in

Terneuzen Terneuzen () is a city and municipality in the southwestern Netherlands, in the province of Zeeland, in the middle of Zeelandic Flanders. With almost 55,000 inhabitants, it is the most populous municipality of Zeeland. History First mentione ...

on 2 December 2015.

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