Wim Udenhout
Prime Minister of Suriname
In office
3 February 1984 – 17 July 1986
PresidentFred Ramdat Misier
DeputyFrank Leeflang [nl]
Preceded byErrol Alibux
Succeeded byPretaap Radhakishun
Personal details
Born
Willem Alfred Udenhout

(1937-09-29)29 September 1937
Coronie District, Colony of Suriname
Died22 May 2023(2023-05-22) (aged 85)
Paramaribo, Suriname
Political partyIndependent
Alma materLeiden University

Willem Alfred Udenhout (29 September 1937 – 22 May 2023) was a Surinamese politician. He served as the military-installed Prime Minister of Suriname from February 1984 to July 1986.[1] He had previously been a teacher and, for a time, a Black Power activist.[2] As an academic he had a PhD in English literature from Leiden University.[3] He later served as an ambassador to the United States. He did not favor investigating the military's murder of civilians or of Maroon people.[4] He was also the Chairman of the Suriname Conservation Foundation.[5]

Udenhout died on 22 May 2023, at the age of 85.[6]

References

  1. ^ Janssen, Roger (2011). In Search of a Path: An Analysis of the Foreign Policy of Suriname from 1975 to 1991. Leiden: Brill. p. 99. ISBN 978-90-04-25367-4. JSTOR 10.1163/j.ctt1w8h0wm.
  2. ^ Betty Nelly Sedoc-Dahlberg (1 January 1990). The Dutch Caribbean: Prospects for Democracy. Psychology Press. pp. 47–. ISBN 978-2-88124-385-1.
  3. ^ Robert W. Duemling (2012). Sketches from Life. Rowman & Littlefield. pp. 96–. ISBN 978-1-4422-2013-3.
  4. ^ Richard Price; Sally Price (1994). On the Mall: Presenting Maroon Tradition-bearers at the 1992 FAF. Indiana University Press. pp. 50–. ISBN 1-879407-07-8.
  5. ^ UNDP Guyana
  6. ^ Wim Udenhout, former Suriname prime minister, dies at 85
Political offices Preceded byErrol Alibux Prime Minister of Suriname 1984–1986 Succeeded byPretaap Radhakishun Minister of Foreign Affairs of Suriname 1984–1985 Succeeded byErik Tjon Kie Sim [nl]


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