Born in 1887, deceased 1979
Dirk
U.Stikker was Born in 1887. Having studied law at the
University of Groningen in the Netherlands, he held various
appointments in banking and industry between 1922 and
1948. In 1946 he founded the Party for Freedom and Democracy
(of which he became Chairman) and from 1946 to 1948 he
was a member of the First Chamber of the States General
(Senate). From 1948 to 1952, he was Minister of Foreign
Affairs and in 1949 represented the Netherlands at the
Round Table Conference on the status of Indonesia and
the Netherlands West Indies. In 1950 he became Political
Mediator of the Organisation for European Economic Cooperation
(OEEC) and later Chairman of this Organisation. He was
Ambassador in London from 1952 to 1958, and later Ambassador
to the Republic of Iceland.
Mr.
Stikker was appointed Permanent Representative of the
Netherlands to the North Atlantic Council and to the OEEC
in July 1958. In April 1961 the North Atlantic Council
chose him to succeed Paul-Henri Spaak
as Secretary General of NATO and Chairman of the North
Atlantic Council. He relinquished this post in 1964 and
was succeeded by Manlio Brosio.
Dirk Stikker died in 1979.
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