biography
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Rost van Tonningen, Meinoud Marinus
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pronunciation:
[rost van toningen
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| male
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| lived:
| (1894–1945)
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| biography:
| Dutch politician and lawyer, born in Surabaya, Indonesia. As delegate of the League of Nations in Vienna (1923–8, 1931–6) he supervised Austrian government finance. In The Netherlands in 1936 he was a member of the national socialist movement (NSB) and chief editor of the party's publication Het Nationale Dagblad. In 1937 he represented the NSB in parliament. He was strongly anti-Semitic and anti-clerical and, more pro-German than Mussert, was given various high offices during the German occupation. Politically isolated, he resigned from his functions early in 1945 and joined the Landstorm as an officer. He was arrested in 1945, but fell from an upper floor of Scheveningen jail and an enquiry into possible suicide was not allowed to proceed. In the 1980s unsuccessful attempts were made in parliament to have his widow's pension stopped, as she too had publicly declared her sympathies for the National Socialist movement and been convicted. |
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