Johan Remkes

His Excellency Johan Remkes
Johan Remkes in 2010

King's Commissioner of North Holland
Incumbent
Assumed office 1 July 2010
Monarch	Beatrix (2010–2013) Willem-Alexander (since 2013)
Preceded by	Harry Borghouts
Minister of the Interior and Kingdom Relations of the Netherlands
In office 22 July 2002 – 22 February 2007
Prime Minister	Jan Peter Balkenende
Preceded by	Klaas de Vries
Succeeded by	Guusje ter Horst
Deputy Prime Minister of the Netherlands
In office 22 July 2002 – 27 May 2003 Serving with Eduard Bomhoff (2002) Roelf de Boer (2002–2003)
Prime Minister	Jan Peter Balkenende
Preceded by	Annemarie Jorritsma Els Borst
Succeeded by	Gerrit Zalm Thom de Graaf
Undersecretary for Housing, Spatial Planning and the Environment of the Netherlands
In office 3 Augustus 1998 – 22 July 2002
Prime Minister	Wim Kok
Preceded by	Dick Tommel
Succeeded by	Pieter van Geel
Member of the House of Representatives of the Netherlands
In office 30 November 2006 – 17 June 2010
In office 30 January 2003 – May 27, 2003
In office 27 May 2002 – 22 July 2002
In office 26 October 1993 – 3 Augustus 1998
Personal details
Born	Johannes Wijnandus Remkes (1951-06-15) 15 June 1951 Zuidbroek, Netherlands
Nationality	Dutch
Political party	People's Party for Freedom and Democracy
Residence	Haarlem, Netherlands
Alma mater	University of Groningen (Bachelor of Economics)
Occupation	Politician Civil servant Corporate director

Johannes Wijnandus "Johan" Remkes (born 15 June 1951) is a Dutch politician of the People's Party for Freedom and Democracy (VVD). He is the King's Commissioner of North Holland since 1 July 2010.^[1]

He previously served as a Member of the House of Representatives from October 26, 1993, until Augustus 3, 1998, when he became State Secretary for Housing, Spatial Planning and the Environment in the Cabinet Kok II, serving from Augustus 3, 1998, until July 22, 2002. He returned to the House of Representatives for two short periods serving from May 23 to July 22, 2002, and from January 30 to May 27, 2003. He became Minister of the Interior and Kingdom Relations and Deputy Prime Minister in the Cabinet Balkenende I. After the fall of the cabinet, he remained Minister of the Interior and Kingdom Relations in the Cabinets Balkenende II and III but was replaced as Deputy Prime Minister by VVD Party leader Gerrit Zalm. He served as Minister of the Interior and Kingdom Relations from July 22, 2002, until February 22, 2007, and as Deputy Prime Minister from July 22, 2002, until May 27, 2003. He returned as a Member of the House of Representatives after the inauguration of the Cabinet Balkenende IV, serving from November 30, 2006, until June 17, 2010, when he became the Queen's Commissioner of North Holland.

Decorations

Order of Orange-Nassau
- Officer (April 11, 2007)

References

↑ (Dutch) Noord-Holland eindhalte voor Johan Remkes, Telegraaf, April 12, 2010

External links

Official

(Dutch) J.W. (Johan) Remkes Parlement & Politiek

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Government offices
Preceded by Dick Tommel	Undersecretary for Housing, Spatial Planning and the Environment of the Netherlands 1998–2002	Succeeded by Pieter van Geel
Preceded by Klaas de Vries	Minister of the Interior of the Netherlands 2002–2007	Succeeded by Guusje ter Horst
Political offices
Preceded by Annemarie Jorritsma Els Borst	Deputy Prime Minister of the Netherlands 2002–2003 Served alongside: Eduard Bomhoff (2002) Roelf de Boer (2002–2003)	Succeeded by Gerrit Zalm Thom de Graaf
Preceded by Harry Borghouts	King's Commissioner of North Holland 2010–	Incumbent

King's Commissioners

Jacques Tichelaar (Drenthe) Leen Verbeek (Flevoland) John Jorritsma (Friesland) Clemens Cornielje (Gelderland) René Paas (Groningen) Theo Bovens (Limburg) Wim van de Donk (North Brabant) Johan Remkes (North Holland) Ank Bijleveld (Overijssel) Jaap Smit (South Holland) Willibrord van Beek (Utrecht) Han Polman (Zeeland)

Deputy Prime Ministers of the Netherlands

Drees Van Schaik Teulings Beel Struycken Korthals Biesheuvel Vondeling De Quay Witteveen Bakker Nelissen Geertsema Van Agt De Gaay Fortman Wiegel Den Uyl Terlouw Van Aardenne De Korte Kok Dijkstal Van Mierlo Jorritsma Borst Bomhoff Remkes De Boer Zalm De Graaf Brinkhorst Bos Rouvoet Verhagen Asscher

Ministers of the Interior of the Netherlands

Ministry of the Interior and Kingdom Relations

Luzac De Kempenaer Thorbecke Van Reenen Simons Van Rappard Van Tets van Goudriaan Van Heemstra Thorbecke Geertsema Carelszoon J. Heemskerk Fock Thorbecke Van Bosse Geertsema Carelszoon J. Heemskerk Kappeyne van de Coppello Six Pijnacker Hordijk J. Heemskerk Mackay De Savornin Lohman Tak van Poortvliet Van Houten Goeman Borgesius Kuyper Rink T. Heemskerk Cort van der Linden De Beerenbrouck De Geer Kan De Beerenbrouck De Wilde Boeijen Burger Van Boeijen Beel Witteman Van Maarseveen Van Schaik Teulings Van Maarseveen Teulings Beel Van Oven Suurhoff Struycken Toxopeus Smallenbroek Samkalden Verdam Beernink Geertsema De Gaay Fortman Wiegel Van Thijn Rood Rietkerk Korthals Altes De Korte Van Dijk De Koning Van Dijk Dales Hirsch Ballin Van Thijn De Graaff-Nauta Dijkstal Peper Van Boxtel De Vries Remkes Ter Horst Hirsch Ballin Donner Spies Plasterk Blok Plasterk

Ministers of Kingdom Relations of the Netherlands

Ministry of the Interior and Kingdom Relations

Korthals Biesheuvel Bakker Nelissen Lardinois Geertsema De Gaay Fortman Van der Stee Den Uyl De Koning Lubbers Hirsch Ballin Lubbers Voorhoeve Peper Van Boxtel De Vries Remkes De Graaf Pechtold Nicolaï Ter Horst Hirsch Ballin Donner Spies Plasterk Blok Plasterk

Members of the House of Representatives of the Netherlands, 2006–10

House of Representatives, 30 November 2006 - 16 June 2010

Christian Democratic Appeal (CDA - 41)	Van Geel Aasted-Madsen Algra Atsma <Balkenende> Bilder Biskop Blanksma-Van den Heuvel Van Bochove <Van de Camp> Çörüz Van Dijk <Donner> Eski Ferrier <Van Gennip> Van Haersma Buma Haverkamp <Hessels> <Van Heugten> Van Hijum <Van der Hoeven> Ten Hoopen Jager Joldersma Jonker <Van der Knaap> Knops Koopmans Koppejan <Kortenhorst> Mastwijk de Nerée tot Babberich Omtzigt Ormel De Pater-Van der Meer Pieper De Rouwe Schermers Schinkelshoek Schreijer-Pierik Smilde Spies Sterk Van Toorenburg Uitslag <Verburg> <Verhagen> Vietsch de Vries Van Vroonhoven-Kok <Wijn> Willemse-Van der Ploeg

Dutch Labour Party (PvdA - 33)	Hamer Albayrak Arib Besselink Blom Boelhouwer <Bos> Bouchibti Bouwmeester <Bussemaker> <Crone> Van Dam <Depla> Van Dijken <Dijksma> Dijsselbloem Eijsink Gill'ard Heerts Heijnen Jacobi Kalma <Koenders> Kraneveldt Kuiken <Laaper> Leerdam Linhard Roefs Samsom Smeets Spekman Tang <Tichelaar> Timmer <Timmermans> Van der Veen Verbeet (Speaker) Vermeij Vos Waalkens Wolbert <Wolfson> <Yücel>

Socialist Party (SP - 25)	Kant <Abel> Bashir Van Bommel Van Dijk Gerkens Van Gerven Gesthuizen <Van Gijlswijk> Irrgang Jansen Karabulut Langkamp Van Leeuwen Leijten Lempens Luijben Marijnissen Polderman Poppe Van Raak Roemer De Rooij <De Roos> Smits Ulenbelt Van Velzen de Wit

People's Party for Freedom and Democracy (VVD - 21)	Rutte Aptroot <Van Baalen> Van Beek Blok <Boekestijn> Ten Broeke Van der Burg Dezentjé Hamming-Bluemink <Elias> Griffith Harbers Kamp De Krom Meeuwis Van Miltenburg Neppérus Nicolaï Remkes Schippers Snijder-Hazelhoff Teeven Weekers Zijlstra

Party for Freedom (PVV - 9)	Wilders Agema Bosma Brinkman Van Dijck Fritsma Graus <Madlener> De Mos De Roon

GreenLeft (GL - 7)	Halsema Azough Dibi <Diks> <Duyvendak> Van Gent Peters Sap Vendrik

Christian Union (CU - 6)	Slob Anker Cramer <Huizinga> Ortega <Rouvoet> Voordewind Wiegman

Democrats 66 (D66 - 3)	Pechtold Van der Ham Kaya

Party for the Animals (PvdD - 2)	Thieme Ouwehand

Reformed Political Party (SGP - 2)	Van der Vlies Van der Staaij

Member Verdonk (Lid-Verdonk - 1)	Verdonk

Bold signifies the Parliamentary leader (first mentioned) Bold also signifies the Speaker Brackets () signifies a temporary absent member Italics signifies a temporary member <> signifies a member who prematurely left this House of Representatives See also: Members of the House of Representatives of the Netherlands, 2010–12

Third Balkenende cabinet (2006–2007)

^{Preceded by: Second Balkenende cabinet · Succeeded by: Fourth Balkenende cabinet}

Prime Minister	Jan Peter Balkenende General Affairs

Deputy Prime Minister	Gerrit Zalm Finance

Ministers	Johan Remkes Interior Ben Bot Foreign Affairs Piet Hein Donner Justice) (2006 Rita Verdonk Justice) (Acting Ernst Hirsch Ballin Justice) (from 2006 Joop Wijn Economic Affairs Henk Kamp Defence Hans Hoogervorst Health, Welfare and Sport Maria van der Hoeven Education, Culture and Science Karla Peijs Transport, Public Works and Water Management Cees Veerman Agriculture, Nature and Food Quality Aart Jan de Geus Social Affairs and Employment Sybilla Dekker Housing, Spatial Planning and the Environment) (2006 Pieter Winsemius Housing, Spatial Planning and the Environment) (from 2006

Minister without portfolio	Rita Verdonk Integration and Immigration Atzo Nicolaï Government Reform and Kingdom Relations Agnes van Ardenne International Development

State Secretaries	Karien van Gennip Economic Affairs Cees van der Knaap Defence Clémence Ross-van Dorp Health, Welfare and Sport Bruno Bruins Education, Culture and Science Melanie Schultz van Haegen Transport, Public Works and Water Management Henk van Hoof Social Affairs and Employment Pieter van Geel Housing, Spatial Planning and the Environment

Second Balkenende cabinet (2003–2006)

^{Preceded by: First Balkenende cabinet · Succeeded by: Third Balkenende cabinet}

Prime Minister	Jan Peter Balkenende General Affairs

Deputy Prime Ministers	Gerrit Zalm Finance Thom de Graaf Government Reform and Kingdom Relations) (2003–2005 Laurens Jan Brinkhorst Economic Affairs) (2005–2006

Ministers	Johan Remkes Interior Jaap de Hoop Scheffer Foreign Affairs) (2003 Ben Bot Foreign Affairs) (from 2003 Piet Hein Donner Justice Henk Kamp Defence Hans Hoogervorst Health, Welfare and Sport Maria van der Hoeven Education, Culture and Science Karla Peijs Transport, Public Works and Water Management Cees Veerman Agriculture, Nature and Food Quality Aart Jan de Geus Social Affairs and Employment Sybilla Dekker Housing, Spatial Planning and the Environment

Minister without portfolio	Rita Verdonk Integration and Immigration Agnes van Ardenne Development Cooperation Alexander Pechtold Government Reform and Kingdom Relations) (2005–2006

State Secretaries	Atzo Nicolaï Foreign Affairs Joop Wijn Finance Karien van Gennip Economic Affairs Cees van der Knaap Defence Annette Nijs Education, Culture and Science) (2003–2004 Medy van der Laan Education, Culture and Science Mark Rutte Education, Culture and Science) (2004–2006 Bruno Bruins Education, Culture and Science) (from 2006 Clémence Ross-van Dorp Health, Welfare and Sport Melanie Schultz van Haegen Transport, Public Works and Water Management Mark Rutte Social Affairs and Employment) (2003–2004 Henk van Hoof Social Affairs and Employment) (from 2004 Pieter van Geel Housing, Spatial Planning and the Environment

First Balkenende cabinet (2002–2003)

^{Preceded by: Second Kok cabinet · Succeeded by: Second Balkenende cabinet}

Prime Minister	Jan Peter Balkenende General Affairs

Deputy Prime Ministers	Eduard Bomhoff Health, Welfare and Sport) (2002 Johan Remkes Interior and Kingdom Relations Roelf de Boer Transport, Public Works and Water Management) (from 2002

Ministers	Jaap de Hoop Scheffer Foreign Affairs Hans Hoogervorst Finance Piet Hein Donner Justice Herman Heinsbroek Economic Affairs) (2002 Hans Hoogervorst Economic Affairs) (from 2002 Benk Korthals Defence) (2002 Henk Kamp Defence) (from 2002 Maria van der Hoeven Education, Culture and Science Aart Jan de Geus Health, Welfare and Sport) (from 2002 Cees Veerman Agriculture, Nature and Food Quality Aart Jan de Geus Social Affairs and Employment Henk Kamp Housing, Spatial Planning and the Environment

Minister without portfolio	Hilbrand Nawijn Integration and Immigration

State Secretaries	Rob Hessing Interior Atzo Nicolaï Foreign Affairs Agnes van Ardenne Foreign Affairs Steven van Eijck Finance Joop Wijn Economic Affairs Cees van der Knaap Defence Cees van Leeuwen Education, Culture and Science Annette Nijs Education, Culture and Science Clémence Ross-van Dorp Health, Welfare and Sport Melanie Schultz van Haegen Transport, Public Works and Water Management Jan Odink Agriculture, Nature and Food Quality Mark Rutte Social Affairs and Employment Philomena Bijlhout Social Affairs and Employment) (2002 Khee Liang Phoa Social Affairs and Employment) (from 2002 Pieter van Geel Housing, Spatial Planning and the Environment

Second Kok cabinet (1998–2002)

^{Preceded by: First Kok cabinet · Succeeded by: First Balkenende cabinet}

Prime Minister	Wim Kok (General Affairs)

Deputy Prime Ministers	Annemarie Jorritsma (Economic Affairs) Els Borst (Health, Welfare and Sport)

Ministers	Bram Peper (Interior and Kingdom Relations) (1998–2000) Roger van Boxtel (Interior and Kingdom Relations) (acting) Klaas de Vries (Interior and Kingdom Relations) (2000–2002) Jozias van Aartsen (Foreign Affairs) Gerrit Zalm (Finance) Benk Korthals (Justice) Frank de Grave (Defence) Loek Hermans (Education, Culture and Science) Tineke Netelenbos (Transport, Public Works and Water Management) Haijo Apotheker (Agriculture, Nature and Fisheries) (1998–1999) Laurens Jan Brinkhorst (Agriculture, Nature and Fisheries) (1999–2002) Klaas de Vries (Social Affairs and Employment) (1998–2000) Willem Vermeend (Social Affairs and Employment) (2000–2002) Jan Pronk (Housing, Spatial Planning and the Environment)

Minister without portfolio	Roger van Boxtel (Large Cities and Integration) Eveline Herfkens (Development Cooperation)

State Secretaries	Gijs de Vries (Interior and Kingdom Relations) Dick Benschop (Foreign Affairs) Willem Vermeend (Finance) (1998–2000) Wouter Bos (Finance) (2000–2002) Job Cohen (Justice) (1998–2000) Ella Kalsbeek (Justice) (2001) Gerrit Ybema (Economic Affairs) Henk van Hoof (Defence) Margo Vliegenthart (Health, Welfare and Sport) Karin Adelmund (Education, Culture and Science) Rick van der Ploeg (Education, Culture and Science) Monique de Vries (Transport, Public Works and Water Management) Geke Faber (Agriculture, Nature and Fisheries Hans Hoogervorst (Social Affairs and Employment) Annelies Verstand (Social Affairs and Employment) Johan Remkes (Housing, Spatial Planning and the Environment)

Authority control	WorldCat Identities VIAF: 289323730

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