Andreas Matthias Donner (15 June 1918 in

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– 24 August 1992 in

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) was a Dutch judge and the second President of the

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, a position which he served between 1958 and 1964.

Early life

Donner stems from a prominent

Dutch Reformed The Dutch Reformed Church (, , abbreviated NHK ) was the largest Christian denomination in the Netherlands from the onset of the Protestant Reformation in the 16th century until 1930. It was the traditional denomination of the Dutch royal fami ...

family of jurists. His father

Jan Donner Jan Donner (3 February 1891 – 2 February 1981) was a Dutch politician of the defunct Anti-Revolutionary Party (ARP) now merged into the Christian Democratic Appeal (CDA) and jurist. He was granted the honorary title of Minister of State on 16 ...

and his son Piet Hein Donner were Dutch

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, with his son also being the current Dutch Vice President of the Council of State. André Donner's brother

Jan Hein Donner Johannes Hendrikus (Hein) Donner (July 6, 1927 – November 27, 1988) was a Dutch chess grandmaster and writer. He was born in The Hague. His father Jan Donner was a prominent Dutch politician and judge. Donner won the Dutch Championship in 195 ...

was a

chess grandmaster Grandmaster (GM) is a title awarded to chess players by the world chess organization FIDE. Apart from World Champion, Grandmaster is the highest title a chess player can attain. Once achieved, the title is held for life, though exceptionally the t ...

. André Donner studied law at the

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, where he graduated at the age of 21 years old. He obtained his doctorate at the same university with a thesis named "De rechtskracht van administratieve beschikkingen". In 1955 Donner became member of the

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, four years later he became foreign member. The

Van Gend en Loos v Nederlandse Administratie der Belastingen ''Van Gend en Loos v Nederlandse Administratie der Belastingen'' (1963) Case 26/62 was a landmark case of the European Court of Justice which established that provisions of the ''Treaty Establishing the European Economic Community'' were capa ...

case was issued during his term as President of the

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1918 births 1992 deaths 20th-century Dutch judges Members of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences Presidents of the European Court of Justice Lawyers from Rotterdam Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam alumni Academic staff of Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam Academic staff of the University of Groningen Dutch judges of international courts and tribunals {{Netherlands-law-bio-stub

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