Schimmelpenninck in the early 1840s

Willem Anne, Baron Schimmelpenninck van der Oye (6 January 1800, Doesburg, Gelderland – 12 December 1872, Voorst)[1] was a Dutch politician.

Belonging to a noble family, Schimmelpenninck was a member of the House of Representatives of the Netherlands and Minister of Interior (1841–1846)[2] and Foreign minister (September-October 1843) under King William II,[3] who was a proponent of some reform in government. From 1847 to 1853 he was King's Commissioner of the province of Gelderland.[4]

He was at the time befriended with Thorbecke.[5] However, when Thorbecke had become the first Dutch Prime Minister, he considered Schimmelpenninck as a conservative unfit to remain King's Commissioner and fired him towards the end of his first cabinet (much against the king's wishes).[4] Their friendship ended with that. Afterwards Schimmelpenninck held high functions at the court and returned to the House of Representatives, of which in 1858 he was President.[3] Later he was as confidant of the king a member of the Senate of the Netherlands.[3]

As major of the schutterij, Schimmelpenninck was awarded the Military William Order on 7 February 1844. In 1846 he received the Grand Cross in the Order of the Netherlands Lion. The King of Württemberg awarded him the Grand Cross of the Friedrich Order.

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References

  1. ^ Honig, G.J. (1889). Jaarboek van den Nederlandschen adel (in Dutch). The Hague: Genealogical Heraldical Archive. pp. 178–179. Retrieved 6 February 2024.
  2. ^ IJsselmuiden, P. G. van (1988). Binnenlandse zaken en het ontstaan van de moderne bureaucratie in Nederland, 1813-1940 (in Dutch). Kok. pp. 88, 90. ISBN 978-90-242-3075-4. Retrieved 6 February 2024.
  3. ^ a b c "W.A. baron Schimmelpenninck van der Oye". www.parlement.com (in Dutch). Retrieved 6 February 2024.
  4. ^ a b Beekelaar, G. A. M. (1997). Gelderland tussen 1840 en 1850: rapporten, verslagen en andere stukken omtrent de toestand in de provincie Gelderland, opgemaakt door de gouverneur in de jaren 1840-1849 (in Dutch). Uitgeverij Verloren. p. 15. ISBN 978-90-6550-561-3. Retrieved 6 February 2024.
  5. ^ Vries, Tiemen De (1908). Mr. G. Groen van Prinsterer in zijne omgeving (in Dutch). Sijthoff. pp. 84–85. Retrieved 6 February 2024.
House of Representatives of the Netherlands Preceded byConstantijn van Panhuys Member for Zutphen 1854–1860 With: Justinus van der Brugghen 1853–1854Willem Hendrik Dullert 1864–1866 Succeeded byPieter van Bosse Political offices Preceded byJan Karel van Goltstein Speaker of the House of Representatives 1858 Succeeded byGerlach van Reenen


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