Prime Ministers of the Netherlands (1848-present)

Question 1

1st (1848-1848)

Answer 1

Gerrit Schimmelpenninck

Question 2

2nd (1848-1849)

Answer 2

Jacobus Matteüs de Kempenaer (Jacob de Kempenaer)

Question 3

3rd (1849-1853, 1862-1866, and 1871-1872)

Answer 3

Johan Rudolph Thorbecke

Question 4

4th (1853-1856 and 1860-1861)

Answer 4

Floris Adriaan van Hall

Question 5

5th (1856-1858)

Answer 5

Justinus Jacob Leonard van der Brugghen (Justinus van der Brugghen)

Question 6

6th (1858-1860)

Answer 6

Jan Jacob Rochussen

Question 7

7th (1861-1861)

Answer 7

Jacob Pieter Pompejus, Baron van Zuylen van Nijevelt (Jacob van Zuylen van Nijevelt)

Question 8

8th (1861-1862)

Answer 8

Schelto van Heemstra

Question 9

9th (1866-1866)

Answer 9

Isaäc Dignus Fransen van de Putte

Question 9

10th (1866-1868)

Answer 9

Julius Philip Jacob Adriaan, Count van Zuylen van Nijevelt (Julius van Zuylen van Nijevelt)

Question 9

11th (1868-1871)

Answer 9

Pieter Philip van Bosse

Question 9

12th (1872-1874)

Answer 9

Gerrit Abrahamszoon de Vries (Gerrit de Vries)

Question 10

13th (1874-1877 and 1883-1888)

Answer 10

Jan Heemskerk Abrahamszoon (Jan Heemskerk)

Question 11

14th (1877-1879)

Answer 11

Joannes Kappeyne van de Coppello (“Jan” Kappeyne van de Coppello)

Question 12

15th (1879-1883)

Answer 12

Constantijn Theodoor, Count van Lynden van Sandenburg (Theo van Lynden van Sandenburg)

Question 13

16th (1888-1891)

Answer 13

Æneas, Baron Mackay (Aeneas Mackay Jr.)

Question 14

17th (1891-1894)

Answer 14

Gijsbert van Tienhoven

Question 15

18th (1894-1897)

Answer 15

Joan Röell

Question 16

19th (1897-1901)

Answer 16

Nicolaas Gerard Pierson (Nicolaas Pierson)

Question 17

20th (1901-1905)

Answer 17

Abraham Kuyper

Question 18

21st (1905-1908)

Answer 18

Theodoor Herman de Meester (“Theo” de Meester)

Question 19

22nd (1908-1913)

Answer 19

Theodorus Heemskerk (“Theo” Heemskerk)

Question 20

23rd (1913-1918)

Answer 20

Pieter Wilhelm Adrianus Cort van der Linden (Pieter Cort van der Linden)

Question 21

24th (1918-1925 and 1929-1933)

Answer 21

Charles Joseph Marie Ruijs de Beerenbrouck (Charles Ruijs de Beerenbrouck)

Question 22

25th (1925-1926 and 1933-1939)

Answer 22

Hendrikus “Hendrik” Colijn

Question 23

26th (1926-1929 and 1939-1940)

Answer 23

Dirk Jan de Geer

Question 24

27th (1940-1945)

Answer 24

Pieter Gerbrandij (Pieter Sjoerds Gerbrandy)

Question 25

28th (1945-1946)

Answer 25

Willem “Wim” Schermerhorn

Question 26

29th (1946-1948 and 1958-1959)

Answer 26

Louis Joseph María Beel (Louis Beel)

Question 27

30th (1948-1958)

Answer 27

Willem Drees Sr. (Willem Drees)

Question 28

31st (1959-1963)

Answer 28

Jan Eduard de Quay (Jan de Quay)

Question 29

32nd (1963-1965)

Answer 29

Victor Gerard Marie Marijnen (Victor Marijnen)

Question 30

33rd (1965-1966)

Answer 30

Jozef María Laurens Theo Cals (“Jo” Cals)

Question 31

34th (1966-1967)

Answer 31

Jelle Zijlstra

Question 32

35th (1967-1971)

Answer 32

Petrus Jozef Sietse de Jong (“Piet” de Jong)

Question 33

36th (1971-1973)

Answer 33

Barend Willem Biesheuvel (Barend Biesheuvel)

Question 34

37th (1973-1977)

Answer 34

Johannes Marten den Uijl (Joop den Uyl)

Question 35

38th (1977-1982)

Answer 35

Andreas Antonius Maria van Agt (Dries van Agt)

Question 36

39th (1982-1994)

Answer 36

Rudolphus Franciscus Marie Lubbers (“Ruud” Lubbers)

Question 37

40th (1994-2002)

Answer 37

Willem Kok (“Wim” Kok)

Question 38

41st (2002-2010)

Answer 38

Jan Pieter Balkenende Jr. (“Jan Peter” Balkenende)

Question 39

42nd (2010-present)

Answer 39

Mark Rutte