Pieter Kerstens

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Person.png Pieter Kerstens  Rdf-entity.pngRdf-icon.png
(politician)
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Born3 August 1896
Ginneken
Died8 October 1958 (Age 62)
The Hague
NationalityDutch
Founder ofEuropean League of Economic Cooperation
PartyCatholic People's Party
Dutch politician and strong supporter of European cooperation.

Petrus Adrianus (Piet) Kerstens was a Dutch politician and educator. He was minister of Economic Affairs, Agriculture and Fisheries in the Dutch government-in-exile in London from 1942 to 1944. After World War II he was a member of the Senate for the Catholic People's Party (KVP), where he became the Indonesian spokesman for the KVP. He was a strong supporter of European cooperation.[1]


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