Petrus Antonius Josephus Maria "Piet" Steenkamp (8 March 1925 – 8 January 2016) was a Dutch politician of the

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(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

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from 1983 to 1991. He was succeeded by Herman Tjeenk Willink. His son Jan-Benedict is a renowned marketing scholar, author and

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of Marketing at

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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 t ...

on 8 January 2016, 90 years old.''Geestelijk vader CDA Piet Steenkamp (90) overleden.''
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