Derk Boswijk

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Derk Boswijk
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Member of the House of Representatives
Assumed office
31 March 2021
Member of the States of Utrecht
In office
26 March 2015 – 14 April 2021
Succeeded byGerdien Bikker
Personal details
Born
D.G. Boswijk

(1989-04-08) 8 April 1989 (age 32)
Woerden, Netherlands
Political partyChristian Democratic Appeal
Children2
Alma mater
Websitederkboswijk.com

Derk G. Boswijk (born 8 April 1989) is a Dutch politician serving as a member of the House of Representatives since the 2021 general election. A member of the Christian Democratic Appeal (CDA), he previously held a seat in the States of Utrecht from 2015 to 2021 and chaired his party's caucus during the last two of those years.

Early life and education[]

Boswijk was born in 1989 in the Utrecht city Woerden.[1] His father worked as manager of a packaging materials factory.[2] He attended the high school Driestar College in Gouda at vmbo level between 2001 and 2005 and was subsequently trained in engineering at the mbo school ROC ASA in Utrecht until 2009.[3][4] He would later during his career also obtain an hbo degree in Industrial Engineering & Management from the Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences (2013) and a master's degree in Urban and Area Development from the HU University of Applied Sciences Utrecht and the Saxion University of Applied Sciences (2019).[1]

Career[]

While studying in Utrecht in 2006, Boswijk founded Ingenieursbureau Bosons, a business specialized in permits and architectural drawings.[1][5] At the time, he was a supporter of the populist Party for Freedom.[4] Besides, Boswijk wrote a book called Zoon van een emigrant (Son of an emigrant) based on letters by his great-grandfather Cornelis Treur, who left the Netherlands in 1913 to live in United States. It came out in 2014.[6] A historical novel written by Boswijk based on the same letters was released under the name Waarom ik vertrok (Why I left) in 2017.[7]

He participated in the 2015 provincial election in Utrecht as the CDA's sixth candidate and was elected to the States of Utrecht, where he focussed on the environment, mobility, and the economy.[8][9] Boswijk kept working at Bosons until 2016, when he left to work as property developer at real estate investment firm Heyen Beheer.[1] In the states-provincial, Boswijk tried to improve internet connections in rural areas, and he called for the province to do more to support family businesses.[10][11] Boswijk was re-elected in the 2019 election as his party's lijsttrekker and became caucus leader.[12][13] He also became a reserve officer (second lieutenant) in the Royal Netherlands Army the following year.[14][15]

House of Representatives[]

Boswijk was elected member of parliament in the March 2021 general election, being placed 14th on the CDA's party list.[16] He received 1,603 preference votes after a campaign in which he talked about what he perceived as a lack of attention by the House of Representatives for people with a vocational education.[17][18] Boswijk left Heyen Beheer, and he vacated his seat in the States of Utrecht the following month.[19] In the House of Representatives, he became a member of the Committee for Agriculture, Nature and Food Quality; the Committee for Defence; the Committee for Infrastructure and Water Management; the contact group United States; and the Dutch parliamentary delegation to the NATO Assembly. His committee memberships coincide with his specializations within the CDA.[1]

While Boswijk served as the CDA's agricultural spokesperson in the House in July 2021, the party presented its new agricultural vision. It called shrinking the number of farm animals necessary in order to halve reactive nitrogen emissions by 2030 but said it was not a goal in itself. The CDA's plans also called for between €1.5 billion and €2 billion in funds per year to, among other things, assist farmers in developing and maintaining natural areas, which would allow them to make a living with fewer farm animals. Boswijk defended the plans during a speech at a farmers protest the following day.[20][21]

In August, when Kabul was captured by the Taliban, he called on the Dutch government to evacuate all Afghans who had assisted the Dutch army in the War in Afghanistan and were being threatened by the Taliban.[22] He also had contact with people in Afghanistan in order to help them get evacuated.[23] He criticized the government's evacuation operation, describing it as a "clusterfuck", and he successfully advocated an external investigation into the matter.[24] In a profile in de Volkskrant, Boswijk was called an activist member of parliament for being critical of the governing coalition to which his party belonged, and he was therefore compared to Pieter Omtzigt, who had played a prominent role in uncovering the childcare benefits scandal and who had left the CDA earlier that year.[25]

Personal life[]

Boswijk resides in the village Kockengen in the province Utrecht, having lived in nearby Wilnis before. He is a member of the Reformed Association in the Protestant Church in the Netherlands, and he has a wife and two daughters.[13][26] Boswijk tried to climb Mont Blanc in 2016 to raise money for the hearing loss foundation Hear the World, as his eldest daughter was born with the condition. He did not reach the summit but did manage to raise €8,000.[27]

Bibliography[]

  • 2014 – Zoon van een emigrant; English translation: Son of an Immigrant
  • 2017 – Waarom ik vertrok (Why I left)
  • 2020 – Theodore Roosevelt: De progressieve populist (Theodore Roosevelt: The progressive populist)

References[]

  1. ^ a b c d e "Derk Boswijk". Tweede Kamer der Staten-Generaal. Retrieved 14 April 2021.
  2. ^ Scheer, Paul (10 May 2021). "Dit CDA-Kamerlid (Derk Boswijk) was zelf ook ondernemer" [This CDA MP (Derk Boswijk) used to be an entrepreneur]. MKB Nederland (in Dutch). Retrieved 14 June 2021.
  3. ^ "Biografie, onderwijs en loopbaan van Derk Boswijk" [Biography, education, and career of Derk Boswijk]. Tweede Kamer der Staten-Generaal (in Dutch). Retrieved 14 April 2021.
  4. ^ a b Mat, Joke; Luyendijk, Wubby; Derix, Steven (26 September 2009). "Waarom Wilders". nrc.nl (in Dutch). Retrieved 19 February 2021.
  5. ^ Baas, Jan Hermans (7 October 2013). "Ons plan sluit aan bij Knorr" [Our plan is right for Knorr]. De Gooi- en Eemlander (in Dutch).
  6. ^ Van Zwienen, Simone (20 January 2014). "Ik moest en zou dit doen in mijn leven" [I had to do this in my life]. AD/Groene Hart (in Dutch). p. 7.
  7. ^ Kok, Rosanne (3 October 2017). "Van stapel brieven tot historische roman" [From a pile of letters to a historical novel]. AD/Groene Hart (in Dutch). pp. 6–7.
  8. ^ "Deel provincie komt er bekaaid af" [Part of province fares badly]. AD/Utrechts Nieuwsblad (in Dutch). 21 March 2015. p. 10.
  9. ^ "Derk Boswijk gekozen tot lijsttrekker CDA Utrecht" [Derk Boswijk chosen as lijsttrekker CDA Utrecht]. RTV Utrecht (in Dutch). 27 June 2018. Retrieved 19 February 2021.
  10. ^ "Miljoen voor internet op het Utrechtse platteland" [Million for internet in Utrecht countryside]. AD/Groene Hart (in Dutch). 30 September 2016. p. 5.
  11. ^ Heerschop, Tessa (25 January 2018). "Meer steun voor familiebedrijf" [More support for family businesses]. De Telegraaf (in Dutch). p. 10.
  12. ^ "Derk Boswijk". Provincie Utrecht (in Dutch). Retrieved 20 February 2021.
  13. ^ a b Van den Belt, Peter (22 March 2019). "Vier inwoners Groene Hart in Provinciale Staten" [Four Groene Hart inhabitants in states-provincial]. AD (in Dutch). Retrieved 19 February 2021.
  14. ^ Steinberger, Mathijs (26 July 2020). "Overdag is Derk (31) politicus, in het weekend is hij reservist in het leger: 'Militair worden was mijn jongensdroom'" [Derk (31) is a politician by day and an army reservist in weekends: 'Becoming a soldier was my boyhood dream']. AD (in Dutch). Retrieved 19 February 2021.
  15. ^ Brouwer, Evert (12 March 2021). "Defensie en de Tweede Kamerverkiezingen" [Defense and the general election]. Defensiekrant (in Dutch). Vol. 5 no. 9. Retrieved 14 April 2021.
  16. ^ Van Oostrom, Noa (27 October 2020). "CDA'er Derk Boswijk (31) verrast met hoge plek op kandidatenlijst Tweede Kamer" [CDA member Derk Boswijk (31) surprised by high spot on party list general election]. De Gelderlander (in Dutch). Retrieved 20 February 2021.
  17. ^ "Uitslag Tweede Kamerverkiezing 17 maart 2021" [Results general election 17 March 2021] (PDF). Kiesraad (in Dutch). 26 March 2021. p. 190. Retrieved 27 March 2021.
  18. ^ Knieriem, Peter (11 March 2021). "Derk Boswijk (CDA) uit Kockengen wil meer aandacht voor mbo'ers in Den Haag" [Derk Boswijk (CDA) from Kockengen want more attention for mbo students in The Hague]. RTV Utrecht (in Dutch). Retrieved 14 April 2021.
  19. ^ "Samenstelling" [Composition]. Provincie Utrecht (in Dutch). Retrieved 14 April 2021.
  20. ^ Winterman, Peter (6 July 2021). "CDA: inkrimpen veestapel is onvermijdelijk" [CDA: shrinking number of farm animals inevitable]. Het Parool (in Dutch). Retrieved 23 August 2021.
  21. ^ Kuiper, Martin (6 July 2021). "Ook het CDA acht het krimpen van de veestapel nu 'onvermijdelijk'" [The CDA now also views shrinking the number of farm animals as 'inevitable']. NRC (in Dutch). Retrieved 23 August 2021.
  22. ^ "Tweede Kamer debatteert over crisis in Afghanistan: 'Een ongelooflijke clusterfuck'" [House of Representatives debates about crisis in Afghanistan: 'An unbelievable clusterfuck']. Hart van Nederland (in Dutch). 17 August 2021. Retrieved 24 August 2021.
  23. ^ Botje, Harm Ede (22 August 2021). "CDA'er Boswijk heeft contact met grote groep Afghanen: 'Haal ze thuis op'" [CDA member Boswijk has contact with large group of Afghans]. NU.nl (in Dutch). Retrieved 24 August 2021.
  24. ^ Julen, Jeannine (14 September 2021). "Kabinet laat debacle in Afghanistan onderzoeken door onafhankelijke commissie" [Cabinet will have debacle in Afghanistan investigated by independent commission]. Trouw (in Dutch). Retrieved 6 November 2021.
  25. ^ Korteweg, Ariejan (26 August 2021). "CDA'er Derk Boswijk vult activistisch gat dat Pieter Omtzigt heeft achtergelaten" [CDA member Derk Boswijk fills activist hole that Pieter Omtzigt has left behind]. de Volkskrant (in Dutch). Retrieved 6 November 2021.
  26. ^ Boswijk, Derk (5 March 2021). "Derk Boswijk wil namens het CDA de Kamer in: "We zijn te bescheiden geweest over ons geloof"" [Derk Boswijk wants to enter the House on behalf of the CDA: "We have been too modest about our faith"]. CIP (Interview) (in Dutch). Interviewed by Patrick Simons. Retrieved 12 April 2021.
  27. ^ "Een geweldige ervaring, maar ik doe het nooit meer" [An amazing experience but never again]. AD/Groene Hart (in Dutch). 16 September 2016. p. 4.

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