Marius Holtrop (1967)
Marius Wilhelm Holtrop (Amsterdam, 2 November 1902 - Haarlem, April 1, 1988) was a Dutch economist.
Holtrop was born as son of actors Jan Holtrop and Betty Holtrop-van Gelder. His parents, and his sister Marie, were actors at Het Nederlandsch Tooneel. Holtrop followed the trade school, worked as an accountant, and studied economics at the Municipal University of Amsterdam since 1922. In 1925 he graduated, and in 1928 he graduated from a dissertation entitled The Revenue Rate of Money. After his studies he worked at Hoogovens. He joined the Vereeniging for Valuable Money, who pleaded for devaluation of the guilders. From 1936, he worked as vice president of Shell Chemical Company in San Francisco, to return to Hogovens in 1939.
After the Second World War, he was one of the conspirators of monetary policy of Minister Lieftinck (Lieftinck's ten-year-old). The same Lieftinck nominated Holtrop in 1946 as president of the Dutch Bank. In 1967, Jelle Zijlstra followed him in this position. Holtrop thus became the face of the monetary reconstruction of the Netherlands. As a bank president, he focused strongly and successfully against rising inflation. Holtrop received various honorary doctorates and other honors. Since 1950 he was a member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Sciences, (KNAW).
In 1976, Holtrop was part of the so-called Commission of Three, which investigated announcements made in US senate hearings that Prince Bernard van Lippe-Biesterfeld would have taken bribes from US aircraft builder Lockheed.
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