Willem "Wil" Albeda (13 June 1925 – 6 May 2014) was a Dutch politician of the defunct

Anti-Revolutionary Party The Anti-Revolutionary Party ( nl, Anti-Revolutionaire Partij, ARP) was a Protestant conservative and Christian democratic political party in the Netherlands. The party was founded in 1879 by Abraham Kuyper, a neo-Calvinist theologian and m ...

(ARP) and later of the

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(CDA) party and economist. Albeda attended a gymnasium in

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from May 1937 until March 1943. During the

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Albeda wanted to continue his study but in March 1943 he refused to sign a

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to the German occupation authority but to escape prosecution he was forced to enlist in the

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in the German armored production industry in

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. Following the end of

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Albeda served as a

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for the

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from March 1945 until May 1945. Albeda worked as a civil servant for the

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(FIOD) of the

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from May 1945 until June 1945 and for the Central Bank of the Netherlands from June 1945 until November 1945. Albeda applied at the Rotterdam School of Economics in April 1946 majoring in

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obtaining a

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degree in June 1947 before graduating with a

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degree on 8 December 1950. Albeda worked as a researcher at the

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from April 1948 until September 1951. Albeda worked a financial adviser for the National Christian Trade unions (CNV) from September 1951 until January 1960. Albeda applied at the Free University Amsterdam in July 1952 for a

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and got an

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as an

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in Development economics on 22 February 1957. Albeda worked as a researcher for

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from January 1960 until November 1961. Albeda worked as a trade union leader for the National Christian Trade unions and served as General-Secretary from November 1961 until September 1966. Albeda worked as a professor of Development economics at the Rotterdam School of Economics from September 1966 until December 1977 and as a professor of

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at the Rotterdam School of Economics from January 1973 until December 1977 and as a professor of Labour law and

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at the Delft Institute of Technology from February 1973 until December 1977. Albeda was elected as a Member of the Senate after the Senate election of 1960, taking office on 20 September 1966 serving as a

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chairing the parliamentary committee for General Affairs and parliamentary committee for Economic Affairs and

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for

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and

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. Albeda was selected as

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of the Anti-Revolutionary Party in the Senate following the appointed of

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in the Cabinet Den Uyl, taking office on 11 May 1973. After the election of 1977 Albeda was appointed as Minister of Social Affairs in the Cabinet Van Agt–Wiegel, taking office on 19 December 1977. In April 1981 Albeda announced that he wouldn't stand for the election of 1981 but wanted tot return to the Senate. After the Senate election of 1981 Albeda returned as a Member of the Senate, taking office on 30 June 1981. Following the cabinet formation of 1981 Boersma was not giving a cabinet post in the new

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, the Cabinet Van Agt-Wiegel was replaced by the Cabinet Van Agt II on 11 September 1981 and he continued to serve in the Senate as a frontbencher and spokesperson for Economic Affairs and Social Affairs and deputy spokesperson for

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. Albeda became a distinguished professor of Economics at the

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, serving from 1 November 1981 until 1 January 1985 and also returned as a Member of the Social and Economic Council, serving from 1 December 1981 until 1 January 1985. In December 1984 Albeda was nominated as Director of the Scientific Council for Government Policy, serving from 1 January 1985 until 1 January 1990. The Rotterdam-based Albeda College is named after him

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