Marie Willem Frederik Treub (30 November 1858,

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– 24 July 1931,

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) was a Dutch politician.

Biography

Marie Willem Frederik Treub was born to Jacobus Petrus Treub, mayor of

, and his wife Marie Louise Cornaz. Together with his two brothers Hector and

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, he enjoyed primary education in Voorschoten and attended the ''Gemeentelijke HBS'' in

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, from which he graduated in 1876. After having obtained enough funds in minor municipal positions in Voorschoten, he studies Law at

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, and later at the

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, where he obtained his doctorate with his dissertation. in 1885, Treub became a professor teaching tax law in Amsterdam, and he became an editor of the ''Weekblad voor Notarisambt en Registratie'' and the ''Sociaal Weekblad en Vragen des Tijds'', notarial weeklies with a progressive liberal leaning, two years later. His political interest made him join the local

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electoral association ''Burgerplicht'', but it became apparent that its course could not be altered, and Willem Treub, along with others, established the

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electoral association ''Amsterdam''. Treub was elected into the municipal council of Amsterdam in 1889, and became the city's alderman of finance in 1893. In this position, he introduced labour standards for municipal labourers, included clauses on minimum wages and maximum working hours in the scope statements of municipal projects, and instituted a municipal audit and construction supervision. As alderman for public works, an office he entered in 1895, Treub brought several private water supply and telephone companies under municipal ownership, and pushed for the nationalisation of tram and gas companies.

References

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in the

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