Pieter Wilhelm Adrianus Cort van der Linden (14 May 1846 – 15 July 1935) was a Dutch politician who served as

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from 29 August 1913 to 9 September 1918.

Biography

He was the last prime minister to lead a

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cabinet and the last liberal to be Prime Minister until

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in 2010 (92 years later). One of Cort van der Linden's major achievements was maintaining Dutch neutrality during

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although personally, he was pro-German. He also introduced

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in the Netherlands in what is now known as the

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. That made the Social Democratic Workers' Party and the

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win the 1918 elections. The Catholic

Charles Ruijs de Beerenbrouck Charles Joseph Marie Ruijs de Beerenbrouck (1 December 1873 – 17 April 1936) was a Dutch politician of the defunct Roman Catholic State Party (RKSP), later formed to the Catholic People's Party (KVP) now merged into the Christian Democratic ...

took Cort van der Linden's place as Prime Minister.

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External links

*Paul Moeyes
Cort van der Linden, Pieter Wilhelm Adriaan
in

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