page_title: Willem Drees
section_title: Education and private career
hierarchical_section_title: Willem Drees / Education and private career
caption_attribution_description: Nederlands: Collectie / Archief&#160;: Fotocollectie Elsevier Reportage / Serie&#160;: [ onbekend ] Beschrijving&#160;: Maarschalk Alexandros Papagos (links), premier van Griekenland, ontvangen door minister-president dr. W. Drees (midden). Rechts de Griekse minister van Buitenlandse Zaken Stephanopoulos Datum&#160;: 2 februari 1954 Locatie&#160;: Den Haag, Griekenland Trefwoorden&#160;: bezoeken, ministers, ontvangsten, premiers Persoonsnaam&#160;: Drees W, Papagos Alexandros, Stephanopoulos Fotograaf&#160;: Duinen, […] van / Anefo Auteursrechthebbende&#160;: Nationaal Archief Materiaalsoort&#160;: Foto (zwart/wit) Nummer archiefinventaris&#160;: bekijk toegang 2.24.05.02 Bestanddeelnummer&#160;: 091-0891
context_page_description: Willem Drees Sr. was a Dutch politician of the defunct Social Democratic Workers' Party and later co-founder of the Labour Party and historian who served as Prime Minister of the Netherlands from 7 August 1948 until 22 December 1958.
  Drees studied Accounting at the Amsterdam Public Trade School obtaining an Bachelor of Accountancy degree and worked as a bank teller for the Twentsche Bank from July 1903 until July 1906 as a stenographer for Parliament from January 1907 until August 1919. Drees was elected as a Member of the House of Representatives after the election of 1933 taking office on 9 May 1933 serving as a frontbencher and spokesperson for Social Affairs. After Party Leader and Parliamentary leader Willem Albarda was appointed as Minister of Water Management in the Cabinet De Geer II Drees was selected as his successor on 10 August 1939. Shortly after the German Invasion Party Leader Albarda announced he was stepping down and Drees was anonymously selected as his successor as Leader on 14 May 1940.
context_section_description: Willem Drees was born in Amsterdam on 5 July 1886. After completing his secondary education in 1903 at the Hogeschool van Amsterdam, he worked until 1906 for the Twentsche Bank in Amsterdam. This was followed by a period as a stenographer with the Municipal Council of Amsterdam and then between 1907 and 1919 with the States General of the Netherlands.
caption: Prime Minister of Greece Alexandros Papagos, Prime Minister Willem Drees and Minister for Foreign Affairs of Greece Stefanos Stefanopoulos at the Ministry of General Affairs on 2 February 1954.
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