The Johannes Althusius Foundation was a right-wing, orthodox-Protestant political group, named after the Calvinist political thinker Johannes Althusius (1557-1638). The foundation was founded in 1954 by a number of Orthodox Protestants who were dissatisfied with the Left-Left Course of the Anti-Revolutionary Party and the Christian Historical Union. They oppose the government's interference with the socio-economic life (conductorism). Later, the foundation set up for apartheid politics in South Africa and warned of communism and Islam. The board of the foundation consisted of 3 ARPs, 3 CHUs, 1 SGP'er, 1 GPV'er and 1 independent member. From February 1955 the foundation called the magazine Tot Vrijheid. This organ was more or less the continuation of 'The Dutchman', the magazine of the distressed CHU's W. de Savornin Lohman and Prof. Dr. F.C. Gerretson, who had led a dying existence and was lifted in 1954.
Driving power behind the Johannes Althusius Foundation was the Amsterdam lawyer and speaking AR dissident Dr. Abraham Zeegers, who was also editor of the right-nationalist newspaper Burgerrecht. Zeegers was initially a member of the ARP but subsequently became active with legal nationalist parties such as the National Union, the Boer Party, the Christian Democrat Union and the Dutch Appeal. Besides Zeegers, W. Beernink, G. Goossens, Leo van Heijningen, A.J. Verbrugh and Emerson Vermaat called for freedom. In 1983 the foundation was lifted.
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