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Bertram 'Bep' Johannes Otto Schrieke (18 September 1890,
Zandvoort Zandvoort () is a municipality in the province of North Holland, Netherlands. It is one of the major beach resorts of the Netherlands; it has a long sandy beach. It is bordered by coastal dunes of Zuid-Kennemerland National Park and the Amsterdam ...
,
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– 12 September 1945,
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) was a Dutch
politician A politician is a person active in party politics, or a person holding or seeking an elected office in government. Politicians propose, support, reject and create laws that govern the land and by an extension of its people. Broadly speaking ...
and academic. He served, alongside
Frederik David Holleman Frederik 'Frits' David Holleman (11 May 1887 – 22 January 1958) was a Dutch and South African academic, ethnologist, and jurist, best known for his research into the indigenous legal systems of the Dutch East Indies (now Indonesia) and South Afr ...
, as professor of ethnology and history of the Dutch East Indies (now
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) in Batavia (now Jakarta). From 1939 to 1945 he served as director of the Department of Ethnology at the Colonial Institute, now the
Royal Tropical Institute The Royal Tropical Institute (Dutch: Koninklijk Instituut voor de Tropen, KIT) is an applied knowledge institute located in Amsterdam, Netherlands. It is an independent centre of expertise, education, intercultural cooperation and hospitality de ...
, in
Amsterdam Amsterdam ( , , , lit. ''The Dam on the River Amstel'') is the capital and most populous city of the Netherlands, with The Hague being the seat of government. It has a population of 907,976 within the city proper, 1,558,755 in the urban ar ...
. He later served as education minister in the cabinet Colijn V (the fifth cabinet of
Hendrikus Colijn Hendrikus "Hendrik" Colijn (22 June 1869 – 18 September 1944) was a Dutch politician of the Anti-Revolutionary Party (ARP; now defunct and merged into the Christian Democratic Appeal or CDA). He served as Prime Minister of the Netherlands from ...
). He was also the brother of Jaap Schrieke, a Dutch administrator during the
German occupation of the Netherlands Despite Dutch neutrality, Nazi Germany invaded the Netherlands on 10 May 1940 as part of Fall Gelb (Case Yellow). On 15 May 1940, one day after the bombing of Rotterdam, the Dutch forces surrendered. The Dutch government and the royal family re ...
.


See also

*
List of Dutch politicians A list of most notable Dutch politicians, party affiliation given. A * Willem Aantjes - ARP / CDA * Gijs van Aardenne - VVD * Jan van Aartsen - VVD * Jozias van Aartsen - VVD * Ahmed Aboutaleb - PvdA *Karin Adelmund - PvdA *Fleur Agema - ...


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* 1890 births 1945 deaths Ministers of Education of the Netherlands People from Zandvoort Academic staff of the University of Amsterdam {{Netherlands-politician-stub