Folkert Posthuma


Folkert Evert Posthuma was a Dutch politician.

Biography

During World [War I], he was the Minister of Agriculture, Industry and Trade in the government of Cort [van der Linden] and as such responsible for the food distribution. Before and after his ministership he held a senior management position at the insurance company Centraal Beheer. In the 1930s he became a sympathiser, but not a member, of the National [Socialist Movement in the Netherlands|NSB]. In 1943 he was asked by NSB leader Anton Mussert to become his representative for agriculture but was assassinated later that year by the Dutch resistance and communist Jan Verleun.