• Both his sons Jan Drees and Willem Drees Jr. were active members of the Labour Party, but left the party around 1970 to join the Democratic Socialists 1970.
  • Biography. Drees was born in the Hague on April 20, 1954, as the third child of five and the only son of Willem Drees jr (1922–1998) and Anna Erica...
  • Willem Drees was the right man at the right time: loyal to his social-democratic ideals, honest, respectable, astute and pragmatic.
  • 1. Willem Was The Second Born in His Family. Willem Drees was born on 5th July 1886 in Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands.
  • Willem B. Drees, Technology, Trust, and Religion: Roles of Religions in Controversies on Ecology and the Modification of Life (Leiden University Press, 2009).
  • Willem Drees was a statesman and socialist leader who was the prime minister of the Netherlands from 1948 to 1958.
  • Dutch prime minister Willem Drees (1886 – 1988) The early yearsWillem Drees was born in Amsterdam on July 5, 1886. His father died when he was 5, whic...
  • Willem Drees was one of the most popular Prime Ministers in Dutch history. He was known as “Vadertje” (Father Drees) a nickname that shows the socialist...
  • Education Family Anna Erica Drees-Gescher died on 12 May 1988 at the age of 65. Willem Drees, Junior. died on 5 September 1998 at the age of 75.