biography
pronunciation:
[wiynkohp]
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| (1876–1941)
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| biography:
| Dutch politician, born in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, the son of a rabbi. He studied at the University of Amsterdam, and became propagandist for the Sociaal-Democratische Arbeiderspartij (SDAP), who played an important role in the 1903 railway strikes. He was a co-founder and chief editor (until 1925) of the orthodox-Marxist journal De Tribune, with J C Ceton and Willem van Ravesteyn. All three disagreed with Troelstra and formed the Sociaal-Democratische Partij (SDP) in 1909, which in 1918 became the Communistische Partij Holland (later Communistische Partij Nederland). Moscow ordered him out of its leadership in 1926, and he founded his own party which later merged with the Communistiche Partij Holland (CPH) in 1930. Between the two World Wars Wijnkoop was an MP (1918–25), a member of Amsterdam's Municipal Council (1919–40), and a member of the Provincial Council of North Holland. On 10 May 1940, the first day of the German invasion, he was interned by the Dutch, freed after a few days, and lived the rest of his life in hiding. |
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