Willem Treub
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Marie Willem Frederik Treub (30 November 1858, Voorschoten – 24 July 1931, The Hague) was a Dutch politician.
Biography
[edit]Marie Willem Frederik Treub was born to Jacobus Petrus Treub, mayor of Voorschoten, and his wife Marie Louise Cornaz. Together with his two brothers Hector and Melchior, he enjoyed primary education in Voorschoten and attended the Gemeentelijke HBS in Leiden, from which he graduated in 1876. After having obtained enough funds in minor municipal positions in Voorschoten, he studies Law at Leiden University, and later at the University of Amsterdam, where he obtained his doctorate with his dissertation.
in 1885, Treub became a professor teaching tax law in Amsterdam, and he became an editor of the Weekblad voor Notarisambt en Registratie and the Sociaal Weekblad en Vragen des Tijds, notarial weeklies with a progressive liberal leaning, two years later. His political interest made him join the local classical liberal electoral association Burgerplicht, but it became apparent that its course could not be altered, and Willem Treub, along with others, established the radical electoral association Amsterdam. Treub was elected into the municipal council of Amsterdam in 1889, and became the city's alderman of finance in 1893. In this position, he introduced labour standards for municipal labourers, included clauses on minimum wages and maximum working hours in the scope statements of municipal projects, and instituted a municipal audit and construction supervision. As alderman for public works, an office he entered in 1895, Treub brought several private water supply and telephone companies under municipal ownership, and pushed for the nationalisation of tram and gas companies.
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- Works by Willem Treub at Project Gutenberg
- Works by or about Willem Treub at the Internet Archive
- Works by Willem Treub at LibriVox (public domain audiobooks)
- 1858 births
- 1931 deaths
- Aldermen of Amsterdam
- People from Voorschoten
- Radical League politicians
- Liberal Union (Netherlands) politicians
- Liberal State Party politicians
- Free-thinking Democratic League politicians
- Ministers of finance of the Netherlands
- Ministers of economic affairs of the Netherlands
- Ministers of agriculture of the Netherlands
- Municipal councillors of Amsterdam
- Members of the House of Representatives (Netherlands)
- Leiden University alumni
- University of Amsterdam alumni
- Academic staff of the University of Amsterdam
- Commanders of the Order of the Netherlands Lion
- Dutch politician stubs