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

Prime Minister of the Netherlands The prime minister of the Netherlands () or, before 1945, the chairman of the Council of Ministers () is the ''de facto'' head of government of the Netherlands.''Grondwet voor het Koninkrijk der Nederlanden'' onstitution of the Kingdom of the N ...

from August 1913 to September 1918.

Biography

He was the last prime minister to lead a liberal 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 General League of Roman Catholic Caucuses win the 1918 elections. The Catholic Charles Ruijs de Beerenbrouck took Cort van der Linden's place as Prime Minister.

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*Paul Moeyes
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