About Marten Beinema
Lived 1932 – 2008 (aged 75). Marten Beinema was a Dutch politician and chess player.
Marten Beinema (26 November 1932 - 20 August 2008) was a Dutch politician who served in the Dutch House of Representatives for the Anti-Revolutionary Party (ARP) and its successor the Christian Democratic Appeal (CDA).
Biography Beinema was born on 26 November 1932, into a Reformed family. During World War II, his father was a Dutch resistance fighter, who died during the war. He studied the Dutch language at the University of Utrecht, and worked as a Dutch teacher at a secondary school in Middelburg from 1959 to 1978. In 1980, Beinema also supported an opposition initiative to launch an oil blockade of Apartheid-era South Africa.
From 1978 to 1982 he was also a member of the States of Zeeland.
Beinema was also a chess player and participated in the Tata Steel Chess Tournament.
Marten Beinema died in Middelburg on 20 August 2008.
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Dutch politician (1932-2008)
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