Willem Joost "Wim" Deetman (born 3 April 1945) is a retired Dutch politician and teacher who served as
Minister of Education and Sciences from 1982 to 1989,
Speaker of the House of Representatives from 1989 to 1996 and
Mayor of The Hague from 1996 until 2008. He was a member of the
Christian Historical Union
The Christian Historical Union ( nl, Christelijk-Historische Unie, CHU) was a Protestant Christian democratic political party in the Netherlands. The CHU is one of the predecessors of the Christian Democratic Appeal (CDA), into which it merged ...
(CHU) until it was merged into the
Christian Democratic Appeal (CDA) in 1980, which he joined.
Education and early career
Deetman attended a
Gymnasium in
Gouda
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* Gouda, South Holland, a city in the Netherlands
** Gouda (pottery), style of pottery manufactured in Gouda
** Gouda cheese, type of cheese originally made in and around Gouda
** Gouda railway station
* Gouda, Western Cape, a s ...
from June 1957 until June 1963, and applied at the
Free University Amsterdam
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in July 1966
majoring
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in
Political science
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and obtained a
Bachelor of Social Science
The academic undergraduate degree of Bachelor of Social Science (BSS, B.Soc.Sc., or B.Soc.Sci.) requires three to four years of study in the social sciences at an institution of higher education, primarily found in the Commonwealth of Nations.
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degree in June 1968 before graduating with a