Hugo de Jonge

Hugo de Jonge
Hugo de Jonge
Minister of Housing and Spatial Planning
	Incumbent
	Assumed office ; 10 January 2022
Prime Minister	Mark Rutte
Party leader
	In office; 15 July 2020 – 10 December 2020
Preceded by	Sybrand van Haersma Buma
Succeeded by	Wopke Hoekstra
First Deputy Prime Minister
	Third Rutte cabinet
	In office; 26 October 2017 – 10 January 2022 Serving with Kajsa Ollongren; and Carola Schouten
Preceded by	Lodewijk Asscher
Succeeded by	Sigrid Kaag
Minister of Health, Welfare and Sport
	In office; 26 October 2017 – 10 January 2022
Prime Minister	Mark Rutte
Preceded by	Edith Schippers
Succeeded by	Ernst Kuipers
Municipal councillor of Rotterdam
	In office; 27 March 2014 – 15 May 2014
Alderman of Rotterdam
	In office; 27 May 2010 – 26 October 2017
Personal details
Born	Hugo Mattheüs de Jonge; 26 September 1977 (age 47); Bruinisse, Zeeland, Netherlands
Nationality	Dutch
Political party	Christian Democratic Appeal (CDA)
Residence	Rotterdam, South Holland, Netherlands
Occupation	political, civil servant, teacher
Website	www.parlement.com

Hugo Mattheüs de Jonge (born September 26, 1977 in Bruinisse) is a Dutch politician. He is a member of the Christian Democratic Appeal (CDA) and a minister in the Fourth Rutte cabinet.

De Jonge studied at Ichthus University of Applied Sciences in Rotterdam ^[1] and subsequently worked as a school teacher for five years.

From 2004 to 2006, he was an assistant to the CDA parliamentary group in the House of Representatives. The next four years he worked at the Ministry of Education, Culture and Science.

He became an alderman of the city of Rotterdam in 2010, which lasted till 2017. Education, youth and family matters were in his portfolio. In between he was also a councillor of Rotterdam for a brief period (after the municipal elections in 2014).

From 2017 to 2022, he was minister of Health, Welfare and Sports,^[2] and also a Deputy Prime Minister in Rutte III. He was the first one to replace Prime Minister Mark Rutte.^[3] At the public presentation of the government he received attention by wearing dark-dotted white shoes made of crocodile leather.

He was leading the CDA in 2020 (succeeded by Wopke Hoekstra). Since January 2022, he has been minister of Housing and Spatial Planning in Rutte IV.

Hugo de Jonge is married with two children, and a member of the Protestant Church in the Netherlands (PKN).

References

Bio at Parlement.com

↑ Nowadays Inholland University of Applied Sciences.
↑ Bruno Bruins (VVD) was Minister of Medical Care at the same Ministry.
↑ The two other Deputy Prime Ministers were Kajsa Ollongren (D66) and Carola Schouten (CU).

Other websites

Bio at Government.nl

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[1] Nowadays Inholland University of Applied Sciences.

[2] Bruno Bruins (VVD) was Minister of Medical Care at the same Ministry.

[3] The two other Deputy Prime Ministers were Kajsa Ollongren (D66) and Carola Schouten (CU).

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