Max Gustaaf Rood (21 August 1927 in Enschede – 2 December 2001 in

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) was a Dutch jurist and politician of

Democrats 66 Democrats 66 (; abbreviated D66, ) is a social liberal political party in the Netherlands, which positions itself in the centre of the political spectrum. It is a member of the Liberal International (LI) and the Alliance of Liberals and Demo ...

(D66). Rood was a legal scholar on the subject of labour law at Leiden University. He was Minister of the Interior in the

Third Van Agt cabinet The Third Van Agt cabinet was the executive branch of the Dutch Government from 29 May 1982 until 4 November 1982. The cabinet was formed by the christian-democratic Christian Democratic Appeal (CDA) and the social-liberal Democrats 66 (D'66 ...

in 1982.

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