Dirk Stikker

Dirk Uipko Stikker,  (5 February 1897 – 23 December 1979) was a Dutch banker, industrialist, politician, and diplomat.

In 1945, he was among the organizers of the Stichting van de Arbeid (Dutch Labour Foundation), thus helping to lay the foundation of post-war collective bargaining in the Netherlands.

Stikker served as Minister of Foreign Affairs from 1948 to 1952 and as the third Secretary General of NATO from 1961 to 1964.

In 1964, Stikker was awarded an honorary doctorate by Brown University. He died in Wassenaar in 1979, aged 82.

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 NATO Declassified - Dirk Stikker (biography) 
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