About Wem Lampe
Lived 1896 – 1973 (aged 76). Wem Lampe was a politician.
Willem Frederik Meinhardt (Wem) Lampe (5 December 1896 – 21 February 1973) was a politician of the Netherlands Antilles. Lampe served as Minister of Justice from 1951 to 1952, and from 1954 to 1955. He was Minister Plenipotentiary from 1955 to 1967.
Biography Lampe was born in Aruba as the son of Hendrik Meinhardt Lampe and Sofia Romelia Zeppenfeldt. His father was a teacher and died when Wem was 6 years old. Wem Lampe was a shop assistant and left in 1914 for the island of Sint Maarten. There he attended secondary school at the same school where his eldest brother was headmaster. In addition to that education, he worked at the office of the lieutenant governor A.J.C. Brouwer. In 1946 he left the government service and settled as a notary in Aruba.
Lampe died in 1973 in Oranjestad, Aruba, at the age of 76.
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Who was Wem Lampe?
politician of the Netherlands Antilles (1896-1973)
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Wem Lampe was born on 5 December 1896 in Aruba.
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Wem Lampe died on 21 February 1973 in Oranjestad.
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Wem Lampe was a politician.
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