Zeeger Daniël Johan Wilhelm Gulden (2 March 1875 – 24 November 1960) was a Dutch

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and member of the

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of Amsterdam for the Social Democratic Workers' Party.

Biography

Zeeger Gulden was born in

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to the local municipal architect Antonie Marinus Adolf Gulden. After graduating from the ''

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'' in Zaltbommel, Zeeger Gulden moved to

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in 1896, where he was employed as an illustrator at the municipal telephone company. While he was employed at the municipal telephone company, Zeeger Gulden helped found the Amsterdam Union of Municipal Officials in 1907, and became editor of the union's magazine ''Het Prinsenhof''. After he published an article in the magazine that was critical of the municipal government, Zeeger Gulden was fired from the municipal telephone company in 1908. This affair was widely reported on in the media and eventually led to the resignation of Amsterdam mayor

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. Zeeger Gulden subsequently established himself as an architect, and founded the architect firm Gulden & Geldmaker together with his colleague Melle Geldmaker, which was responsible for many social housing projects in Amsterdam and in other towns in the Netherlands. In 1909, Zeeger Gulden was elected to the municipal council of Amsterdam for the Social Democratic Workers' Party. In the 1920s, Zeeger Gulden together with Emanuel Boekman pleaded for the construction of an underground railway network in Amsterdam. Zeeger Gulden would serve for 30 years as a municipal councillor to eventually resign on 5 September 1939. After the

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, Zeeger Gulden worked together with architect Izaäk Blomhert (1879-1956) and after Blomhert's death with Ger Husslage. Husslage continued the work of the architect firm after Gulden's death under his own name.

Publications

*''Rationalisatie in de woningbouw'' (H. Meulenhof, 1930).

Selected works

File:Rozentheater1.jpg, The ''Rozentheater'' in Amsterdam Maastricht - rijksmonument 506834 - Van den Berghstraat 2 20100814.jpg, Workers' houses on the Van den Berghstraat in Maastricht Jozef Israëlskade hoek Mesdagstraat pic2.jpg, Workers' houses on the Jozef Israëlskade in Amsterdam Merwedeplein hoek Roerstraat.JPG, Workers' houses on the Merwedeplein in Amsterdam

Personal life

Zeeger Gulden married Johanna Sophia Petronella Dutrij van Haeften on 22 December 1904. Together they had two children: Zeger Maria Antonie Gulden (born 1905) en Maria (Miek) Johanna Gulden (born 1908). His son Zeger was an active member of the Dutch resistance to the German occupation during the Second World War and was executed in 1943 or 1944.

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References

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