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Willem Witteveen (Willem Johannes Witteveen) was born on 5 May, 1952 in Rotterdam, Netherlands, is a Dutch politician (1952–2014). Discover Willem Witteveen's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 62 years old?

Popular As Willem Johannes Witteveen
Occupation Politician, professor, author
Age 62 years old
Zodiac Sign Taurus
Born 5 May, 1952
Birthday 5 May
Birthplace Rotterdam, Netherlands
Date of death 17 July, 2014
Died Place Malaysian Airlines Flight 17, near Hrabove, Ukraine
Nationality Netherlands

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Who Is Willem Witteveen's Wife?

His wife is Lidwien Heerkens (m. 1978-2014)

Family
Parents *Johan Witteveen *Liesbeth de Vries Feijens
Wife Lidwien Heerkens (m. 1978-2014)
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Children Marit (d. 2014) Freek

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Source of Income Politician

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1952

Willem Johannes Witteveen (5 May 1952 – 17 July 2014) was a Dutch legal scholar, politician, and author.

Willem Johannes Witteveen was born on 5 May 1952 in Rotterdam in the Netherlands.

He was the son of liberal politician Johan Witteveen and Liesbeth de Vries Feijens.

He was also the great-grandson of social-democratic politician Floor Wibaut.

He had three brothers and a sister.

1964

He went to a public primary Montessori school in Rotterdam and to the public secondary school Rijnlands Lyceum (1964–1970) in Wassenaar.

1970

He studied Dutch law at Leiden University (1970–1978) in Leiden.

1978

In 1978, he married Lidwien Heerkens; the couple had two children, a daughter Marit and a son Freek.

The family lived in Breda in North Brabant.

Witteveen wrote several non-fiction books about law and politics:

1979

From 1979 to 1989, he worked as researcher of constitutional law at Leiden University.

1988

In 1988, he received his PhD cum laude with the dissertation De retoriek in het recht (The rhetorics of law).

1990

He was a law professor at Tilburg University (1990–2014) and a Member of the Senate for the Labour Party (1999–2007; 2013–2014).

He was also the author of several books about law and politics.

From 1990 to his death, he was a law professor at Tilburg University.

His fields of expertise were trias politica, legislation, rhetoric, legal theory, and political theory.

1994

Witteveen was a member of the Labour Party since 1994.

1998

He was chairman of the party platform committee of the Labour Party in 1998–99.

1999

He was a member of the Senate from 1999 to 2007, where he was chairman of the committee for Internal Affairs and the High Councils of State.

2007

In the 2007 and 2011 Senate elections, he was at an unelectable position on the candidate list.

From 2007 to his death, he was founding dean of the College of Liberal Arts at Tilburg University.

2013

From 2013 to his death, he was again a senator.

He was appointed after Pauline Meurs left the Senate.

Witteveen had finished the manuscript of his book De wet als kunstwerk (The law as work of art) shortly before his death.

2014

Witteveen was killed on 17 July 2014 when the flight he was travelling on, Malaysia Airlines Flight 17, was shot down over eastern Ukraine by pro Russian rebels.

The book was posthumously released in November 2014.

Witteveen was killed on 17 July 2014 at the age of 62, along with his wife Lidwien Heerkens and their daughter Marit Witteveen.

They were passengers on Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 from Schiphol in the Netherlands to Kuala Lumpur in Malaysia, when the airplane was shot down near Hrabove in Ukraine's contested eastern Donetsk region.

Like his father, Witteveen was a Universal Sufist.