LSV Minerva

LSV Minerva   (Deep state milieu?)
Formation	1974
Headquarters	Leiden University
Type	• fraternity • secret society?
Membership	• Juliana Wilhelmina • Willem-Alexander Ferdinand • Constantijn van Oranje-Nassau • Prince Floris van Oranje-Nassau • Princess Margriet • Pieter van Vollenhoven • Alexander van Oranje-Nassau • Princess Aimée • Princess Astrid of Belgium • Hamengkubuwono IX • Willem van Oranje-Nassau • Gijs van Aardenne • Pierre Louis d’Aulnis de Bourouill • Yoeri Albrecht • Hans van Baalen • Joris Backer • Pieter Herman Bakker Schut • Floris Bakels • Robbert Baruch • Leonard Blussé • Achraf Bouali • Huibert Boumeester • Annelien Bredenoord • Ferry Breedveld • Jan Breman • Nina Brink • Theo Brinkel • Laurens-Jan Brinkhorst • Ankie Broekers-Knol • Philippe Brood • Carolijn Brouwer • Conrad Busken Huet • Charlene de Carvalho-Heineken • Rudolph Pabus Cleveringa • Dolf Cohen • Pieter Cort van der Linden • Herman Coster • Pieter Helbert Damsté • Joris Demmink • Kees Dutilh • Cees Droogleever Fortuyn • Heleen Dupuis • Cees van Eendenburg • Irene Eijs • Cees Fasseur • Jaap Fischer • Anne Flierman • Adriaan Fokker • Hans Franken • Robert Fruin • Gerben-Jan Gerbrandy • Ida Gerhardt • Floris Gerts • Cees Goekoop • Oscar Hammerstein • Karel Hardeman • François Haverschmidt • Erik Hazelhoff Roelfzema • Jérôme Heldring • Jan Hoekema • Wopke Hoekstra • Noor Holsboer • Jaap de Hoop Scheffer • Mariska Hulscher • Alexandra van Huffelen • Adriaan Jaeggi • Ernst de Jonge • Marien de Jonge • Tine Joustra • Jan Kalff • Wanda de Kanter-Koppenol • Annelien Kappeyne van de Coppello • Eelco van Kleffens • Rudolf de Korte • Chris Krediet • Kees Kousemaker • A.W. Kist • Floor Kist • Chris van der Klaauw • Marius Klumperbeek • Manuel Kneepkensm • Rudolf de Korte • Benk Korthals • Frits Korthals Altes • Rik Kuethe • Jef Last • Kees van Lede • Ruurd Leegstra • Lisanne Lejeune • Jacob van Lennep • J.L. van Ligten • Hendrik Lorentz • Cornald Maas • George Maduro • Michiel Meurs • Pauline Meurs • Edgar Michiels van Verduynen • Walter Middelberg • Frank Moerman • Michiel Mol • Victor Muller • Alexander Münninghoff • Hans Nieuwenhuis • Nelleke Noordervliet • Hendrik Offerhaus • Ivo Opstelten • Alexander Pechtold • J.J. Peereboom • Mariko Peters • Herman Philipse • Suzanne Plesman • Jaap Polak • K.L. Poll • Huib du Pon • Gerrit Johan ter Poorten • Marnix van Rij • Onno te Rijdt • Alexander Rinnooy Kan • Annie Romein-Verschoor • Jon van Rood • Toon de Ruiter • Herman Schaper • J.M.W. Scheltema • Rutger Schimmelpenninck • De Schoolmeester • Jaap Schouten • Melanie Schultz van Haegen • Kees Schuyt • Ype Stelma • Ard van der Steur • Max van der Stoel • Bram van der Stok • Olaf Stuger • Carel Struycken • Morris Tabaksblat • Joost Taverne • Ben Telders • Ockje Tellegen • Erica Terpstra • Emile den Tex • Herman Tjeenk Willink • Jacobine Veenhoven • Onno van Veldhuizen • Maxime Verhagen • Paul Verhoeven • Alexander Ver Huell • Willemijn Verloop • Paul van Vliet • Charles van der Voort • Gijs de Vries • Nicolien van Vroonhoven-Kok • Henk Wamsteker • Hans van Walsem • Franc Weerwind • Bas van Werven • Nout Wellink • Herman Bernard Wiardi Beckman • Jan-Kees Wiebenga • Flip Winckel • Pieter Winsemius • Eckart Wintzen • Guido van Woerkom • Michiel Zonnevylle • Sophie Zijlstra • Willem Zijlstra • Guus Zoutendijk • Ruben van Zwieten.
A prestigious Dutch elite fraternity

LSV Minerva is an elite fraternity from the University of Leiden. A report from the newspaper Volkskrant reported "two-thirds of influential Netherlands was a member of Minerva in 2010.

Pro Patria

Founded in 1866, the Royal Leiden Student Association for Voluntary Exercise in Arms "Pro Patria" is a student militia. The militia is a sub-association of LSV Minerva. The mother regiment in the armed forces is the Garderegiment Grenadiers en Jagers.

Prince Bernhard was patron of Pro Patria. After the death of Prince Bernhard, the Inspector General of the Armed Forces became the patron of Pro Patria.

Pierre Louis d'Aulnis de Bourouill inspects Pro Patria in 2011.

In addition to practicing shooting, Pro Patria takes part in military maneuvers, visits various defense units and contributes to the guard of honor during Prinsjesdag. Pro Patria also participates in Veterans Day as a ceremonial guard. Pro Patria also performs ceremonial tasks during the loyalty and mourning of members of the Royal House, as well as during visits by royals to Leiden Univeristy.

In addition, Pro Patria organizes discussion evenings on international security issues. Pro Patria is also a social association and is noted by the involvement of many former members.

At the beginning of the 21st century, Pro Patria is still an active association and, along with the other student militias, the wedding of Crown Prince Willem Alexander and Máxima Zorreguieta and at the funerals of Queen Juliana, Prince Claus and Prince Bernhard. Since 1999, Pro Patria has also had female members.

Pro Patria was under increased scrunity during the cold war for their "scary-nationalistic" and "anti-monarch" sentiment which included refusing to wave to Queen Beatrix. Surrounding the deep politics behind the 1981 Dutch Cabinet crisis, the subgroup was banned from military practises, being banned from the yearly proceeding in the parliamentary quarter of The Hague in 1990 as well.

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