page_title: Oldambt (municipality)
section_title: Notable people
hierarchical_section_title: Oldambt (municipality) / Notable people
caption_attribution_description: Nederlands: Collectie / Archief&#160;: Fotocollectie Elsevier Reportage / Serie&#160;: [ onbekend ] Beschrijving&#160;: Secretaris-generaal van de NATO, mr. D.U. Stikker, tijdens een persconferentie op Schiphol. Hij maakt een afscheidstoernee langs alle NATO-landen Datum&#160;: 8 juli 1964 Locatie&#160;: Noord-Holland, Schiphol Trefwoorden&#160;: internationale organisaties, politici, portretten Persoonsnaam&#160;: Stikker, Dirk Fotograaf&#160;: Pot, Harry / Anefo Auteursrechthebbende&#160;: Nationaal Archief Materiaalsoort&#160;: Foto (zwart/wit) Nummer archiefinventaris&#160;: bekijk toegang 2.24.05.02 Bestanddeelnummer&#160;: 093-0129
context_page_description: Oldambt is a municipality with a population of 38,129 in the province of Groningen in the Netherlands. It was established in 2010 by merging the municipalities of Reiderland, Scheemda, and Winschoten. It contains the city of Winschoten and these villages:
  Bad Nieuweschans
  Beerta
  Blauwestad
  Drieborg
  Finsterwolde
  Heiligerlee
  Midwolda
  Nieuw-Beerta
  Nieuwolda
  Nieuw-Scheemda
  Oostwold
  Scheemda
  't Waar
  Westerlee.
  The mayor was Pieter Smit of D66.
context_section_description: Wiebbe Hayes (born in Winschoten ca.1608) a colonial soldier and national hero re the Batavia
  Dirk Stikker (1897 in Winschoten – 1979) a Dutch politician, diplomat and Secretary General of NATO 1961/1964
  Bernard D. H. Tellegen (1900 in Winschoten – 1990) a Dutch electrical engineer and inventor of the pentode and the gyrator
  Herman Makkink (1937 in Winschoten – 2013) a Dutch sculptor, graphic artist and illustrator
  Bas Jan Ader (1942 in Winschoten – 1975) a Dutch conceptual and performance artist and photographer
  Martin Zijlstra (1944–2014) a Dutch politician, Mayor of Oldambt, 2010
  Jos Silvis (born 1953 in Winschoten) a judge at the European Court of Human Rights 2012/2016 and then attorney general at the Supreme Court of the Netherlands
  Marcel Hensema (born 1970 in Winschoten) a Dutch film actor
caption: Dirk Stikker, 1964
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