Pieter Eijssen
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Pieter Eijssen (
Schimmert Schimmert (; ) is a village in the Dutch province of Limburg. It is located in the municipality of Beekdaelen. History The village was first mentioned in the mid-11th century as "de Scinmottera". The etymology is unclear. Schimmert is a villa ...
, 15 February 1906 –
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, 30 June 1988) was a Dutch lawyer and, among other things, Vice President of the
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. In 1924 he completed his education at the municipal gymnasium in
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. He studied at the
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, where he obtained his doctorate in Dutch law cum laude on 30 May 1930. After entering military service at the age of 16 he successfully completed his master's degree in private law at the Faculty of Law in Batavia in 1931. From 1930 he worked in the
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. He held many positions including editor at the Department of Justice, secretary of the commission for constitutional reforms (from 1940), secretary of the Council of Heads of Department at the Department of Economic Affairs and the General Staff of the Department of War (1936–1940), secretary of the (private) Mortgage Association for mortgage companies, secretary of the Volksraad voting office, vice-chairman of the Indies Catholic Party and member of the Insurance Chamber (1946). Furthermore, in 1936, the Government expressed its special satisfaction to him for the commendable performance of his duties as Secretary of the Preparatory Commission for the Sugar Regulations. He was Advocate general at the
Supreme Court of the Netherlands The Supreme Court of the Netherlands ( or simply ''Hoge Raad''), officially the High Council of the Netherlands, is the final court of appeal in civil, criminal and tax cases in the Netherlands, including Curaçao, Sint Maarten and Aruba. Th ...
from 1960 until 1961. In this capacity, among other things, he argued against the use of preliminary references. Eijsen was Councilor in the Supreme Court of the Netherlands from 1961 to 1973 and Vice President of the Supreme Court from 1973 to 1976.


Sources

* P.J. van Koppen & J. ten Kate, ''De Hoge Raad in persoon. Benoemingen in de Hoge Raad der Nederlanden 1838-2002'', Deventer: Kluwer 2003, p. 147.


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{{DEFAULTSORT:Eijssen, Pieter 1906 births 1988 deaths 20th-century Dutch judges People from Schimmert Radboud University Nijmegen alumni Vice presidents of the Supreme Court of the Netherlands