page_title: Dries van Agt
section_title: Minister and Deputy Prime Minister
hierarchical_section_title: Dries van Agt / Politics / Minister and Deputy Prime Minister
caption_attribution_description: Nederlands: Collectie / Archief&#160;: Fotocollectie Anefo Reportage / Serie&#160;: [ onbekend ] Beschrijving&#160;: Premier Van Agt ontvangt Westduitse CDU-voorzitter Helmut Kohl Datum&#160;: 13 september 1978 Trefwoorden&#160;: ontvangsten, politici Persoonsnaam&#160;: Agt, Dries van, Helmut Kohl Fotograaf&#160;: Verhoeff, Bert / Anefo Auteursrechthebbende&#160;: Nationaal Archief Materiaalsoort&#160;: Negatief (zwart/wit) Nummer archiefinventaris&#160;: bekijk toegang 2.24.01.05 Bestanddeelnummer&#160;: 929-8963
context_page_description: Andreas Antonius Maria "Dries" van Agt is a retired Dutch politician and diplomat of the defunct Catholic People's Party and later the Christian Democratic Appeal party and jurist who served as Prime Minister of the Netherlands from 19 December 1977 until 4 November 1982.
  Van Agt studied Law at the Radboud University Nijmegen obtaining a Master of Laws degree and worked as a criminal defense lawyer in Eindhoven from September 1955 until December 1957 and as a civil servant at the Ministries of Agriculture and Fisheries and Justice from December 1957 until January 1968. Van Agt worked as a professor of Criminal law and Criminal procedure at his alma mater from January 1968 until July 1971 and served as a judge at the district court of Arnhem from April 1970 until May 1971. After the election of 1971 Van Agt was appointed as Minister of Justice in the Cabinet Biesheuvel I and taking office on 6 July 1971. Van Agt was elected as a Member of the House of Representatives after the election of 1972 serving from on 23 January 1973 until 22 April 1973.
context_section_description: Van Agt entered politics as a member of the Catholic People's Party, which merged with the other two major Christian Democratic parties in 1980 to form the Christian Democratic Appeal (CDA). From 1968 to 1971, Van Agt was Professor of Criminal Law at the Catholic University of Nijmegen. From 1971 to 1973, he was Minister of Justice in the government of Barend Biesheuvel. He caused outrage when he tried to pardon the last three Nazi war criminals still in Dutch prisons in 1972. From 1973 to 1977 he was Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Justice in the government of Joop den Uyl.
caption: Prime Minister Dries van Agt and German Leader Helmut Kohl at the Ministry of General Affairs on 13 September 1978.
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