page_title: Republican Society
section_title: Founders and goal
hierarchical_section_title: Republican Society / Founders and goal
caption_attribution_description: Nederlands: Prof. dr. P. J. Vinken, bestuursvoorzitter van Elsevier, tijdens de persconferentie over het jaarverslag. 11 april 1989
context_page_description: The Republican Society is a Dutch republican movement, founded on 11 September 1996 in the Prinsenhof in Delft, at the initiative of Pierre Vinken. Its aim is to abolish the monarchy of the Netherlands.
context_section_description: According to the Republican Society's website, there are fourteen founders:
  Martin van Amerongen (1941–2002)
  Arend Jan Dunning (1930–2009)
  Han Kleiterp (1933–2014)
  Ben Knapen (1951)
  Lense Koopmans (1943–2015)
  Piet Korteweg
  Sjeng Kremers (1933)
  Roelof Nelissen (1931–2019)
  Henny de Ruiter (1934)
  Albert Schuitemaker (1928–2008)
  Pierre Vinken (1927–2011)
  Frits Visser
  Loek van Vollenhoven (1930)
  Guus Zoutendijk (1929–2005)
  The idea was to start with fifteen members, and two absent people –Harry Mulisch and Schuitemaker– would be marked as co-founders in absentia. However, Mulisch withdrew and thus brought the number to fourteen. These were all prominent members of Dutch society with influential positions in politics, science, business, education and journalism.
  The society does not have any bylaws. Unlike the New Republican Society, the Republican Society does not undertake actions to bring the republic closer. It proceeds from the notion that the mere existence of the Republican Society will be enough to enable the restoration of the Dutch Republic in the long term. One can only become a member by co-optation.
caption: Initiator Pierre Vinken
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