Theo Tromp


Theodoor Philibert "Theo" Tromp was a Dutch politician and engineer.
Tromp was a mechanical engineer working at Philips since 1927, who in 1945, in the last Dutch government in exile, was Minister of Water Management. Before that he already was a member of the College of Agriculture, Trade and Industry in the liberated south. From 1947, he was a member of Philips' board of directors, of which he was vice president from 1957 until his retirement in 1967. He was known to Philips as a fairly authoritarian manager.