Willem "Wim" Dik (11 January 1939 – 19 June 2022) was a Dutch politician.
Biography
He was born in
Rotterdam
Rotterdam ( , ; ; ) is the second-largest List of cities in the Netherlands by province, city in the Netherlands after the national capital of Amsterdam. It is in the Provinces of the Netherlands, province of South Holland, part of the North S ...
. He was the head of
KPN
Koninklijke KPN N.V. (Royal KPN N.V. in English), trading as KPN is a Dutch List of telephone operating companies, telecommunications company. KPN originated from a government-run postal, telegraph and telephone service and is based in Rotterda ...
NV, Holland's formerly state-owned postal and telecom service.
On behalf of
Democrats 66
Democrats 66 (; D66) is a social liberal and progressive political party in the Netherlands, which is positioned on the centre to centre-left of the political spectrum. It is a member of the Liberal International (LI) and the Alliance of Li ...
(D66) he was a
State Secretary in the
Third Van Agt cabinet from 1981 to 1982.
He died in
Helvoirt
Helvoirt () is a village and part of the municipality of Vught, Netherlands.
History
The village was first mentioned in 1192 as Hellevorth, and means "clear fordable place". Helvoirt developed in the Middle Ages on the road from Tilburg to 's- ...
.
References
1939 births
2022 deaths
Delft University of Technology alumni
Democrats 66 politicians
Dutch chief executives
Grand Officers of the Order of Orange-Nassau
Politicians from Rotterdam
State Secretaries for Economic Affairs of the Netherlands
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