Severinus Desiré Emanuels

Severinus Desiré "Freek" Emanuels (27 February 1910 – 27 August 1981) was a Dutch politician, and Prime Minister of Suriname from 25 June 1958 to 30 June 1963.

Biography Emanuels was born in Rotterdam on 27 February 1910. He studied law at the Utrecht University. From 1934 to 1950, he worked as a judge in the Dutch East Indies, and its successor Indonesia. In 1948, he was an advisor for the Federal Conference of Bandung.

In 1958, he was working for the Dutch embassy in Washington, D.C. which he accepted, and he arrived in Suriname on 14 July 1958. He served as Prime Minister of Suriname from 1958 to 1963. In September 1959, he asked the States General of the Netherlands to boycott South Africa which was denied, however Suriname was permitted to implement their own trade boycott. In 1961, his government unsuccessfully tried to negotiate more autonomy for Suriname. In 1965, he returned to the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs. He retired in 1976.

Emanuels died on 27 August 1981 in The Hague, at the age of 71.