Marinus van der Goes van Naters (21 December 1900 – 12 February 2005) was a Dutch politician of the defunct Social Democratic Workers' Party (SDAP) and later the Labour Party (PvdA) and lawyer.

Background and early career

He was born in

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. He was a member of the

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from 1937 to 1967 and in-parliament chairman of the

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parties SDAP and its successor the Labour Party from 1945 to 1951.

Imprisonment at Buchenwald and elsewhere

From 1940 to 1944 during

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he was held hostage by the German occupiers in various camps, including Kamp Sint-Michielsgestel and

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German border issues after World War II

In the mid-1950s he was involved in the eponymous plan adopted by the

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for the settlement of the

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question. In the post-war years he successfully argued that the Duivelsberg (German: ''Wylerberg'' or ''Teufelsberg''), annexed from

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after

, be retained permanently by the

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Death

He died in 2005 at the age of 104 in

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, Netherlands.

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