Hendrikus Colijn

Biography

Hendrikus (Hendrik) Colijn (Burgerveen, June 22, 1869 – Ilmenau, September 18, 1944) was a Dutch military officer, a senior executive at Shell, where he became a millionaire, and a politician of the Anti-Revolutionaire Partij (ARP). From 1925 to 1926 and from 1933 to 1939, he served as Prime Minister of the Netherlands in five cabinets…