Fekko Ebel Hajo Ebels

Fekko Ebel Hajo Ebels (18 August 1878 – 18 January 1951) was a Dutch politician. He was a member of the Dutch House of Representatives from 1922 to 1946 and of the Provincial Council of Groningen from 1916 to 1935, initially for the Free-thinking Democratic League (VDB) and from 1946 for the Labour Party (PvdA).

Early life Fekko Ebel Hajo Ebels was born on 18 August 1878 in the township of Kroonpolder, in the municipality of Beerta, to Hajo Ebels and Esse Ebbens. His family belonged to a class of wealthy "gentleman farmers" in the province of Groningen, who owned large farms with many labourers and were generally liberal or progressive in politics. After completing his secondary education in Winschoten in 1897, Ebels became a farmer himself.