Willem Drees (1956–1958) Louis Beel (1958–1959) Jan de Quay (1959–1963) Victor Marijnen (1963–1965) Jo Cals (1965–1966) Jelle Zijlstra (1966–1967) Piet de Jong (1967–1971)
Preceded by
Johan Beyen
Succeeded by
Norbert Schmelzer
Member of the House of Representatives
In office 11 May 1971 – 1 October 1971
In office 23 February 1967 – 5 April 1967
In office 3 July 1956 – 3 October 1956
Parliamentary group
Catholic People's Party
Minister for Foreign Policy
In office 2 September 1952 – 13 October 1956
Prime Minister
Willem Drees
Preceded by
Eelco van Kleffens (1947)
Succeeded by
Office abolished
Personal details
Born
Joseph Antoine Marie Hubert Luns [Note]
(1911-08-28)28 August 1911 Rotterdam, Netherlands
Died
17 July 2002(2002-07-17) (aged 90) Brussels, Belgium
Political party
Catholic People's Party (1945–1972)
Other political affiliations
Independent Christian Democrat (Conservative Catholic) (from 1972)
Height
2.01 m (6 ft 7 in)
Spouse
Baroness Lia van Heemstra
(m. 1939; died 1990)
Relations
Theo Luns [nl] (brother)
Ella van Heemstra (niece in law)
Audrey Hepburn (first niece-in-law once removed)
Children
2
Parent
Huib Luns (1881–1942) (father)
Alma mater
Leiden University
(LLB, LLM)
London School of Economics (BEcon)
Occupation
Politician
diplomat
civil servant
jurist
economist
historian
Signature
Military service
Branch/service
Royal Netherlands Navy
Years of service
1930–1931 (Conscription)
1931–1936 (Reserve)
Rank
Warrant officer
Unit
Netherlands Coastguard
Battles/wars
Cold War
Joseph Marie Antoine Hubert Luns (28 August 1911 – 17 July 2002) was a Dutch politician of the defunct Catholic People's Party (KVP), now merged into the Christian Democratic Appeal (CDA), diplomat, and jurist. He served as Secretary General of NATO from 1 October 1971 until 25 June 1984.[1]
Luns attended Saint Ignatius Gymnasium in Amsterdam from April 1924 until June 1930. He was conscripted in the Coastguard of the Royal Netherlands Navy serving as a warrant officer from June 1930 until July 1931. He applied at the University of Amsterdam in July 1931 majoring in law before transferring to the Leiden University in November 1932, obtaining a Bachelor of Laws degree in June 1933 and graduating with a Master of Laws degree in July 1937. He applied at the London School of Economics of the University of London in January 1938 for a postgraduate education in economics, obtaining a Bachelor of Economics degree in June 1938.
In September 1971 Luns was nominated as the next Secretary General of NATO. He resigned as a Member of the House of Representatives the same day he was installed as secretary general, serving from 1 October 1971 to 25 June 1984. He retired after 31 years in national politics and became active in the public sector, where he was a diplomat and lobbyist for several economic delegations on behalf of the government and as an advocate for United States–European Union relations and European integration.
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anti-colonialism". President Kennedy later met with both the Dutch Foreign Minister JosephLuns and Sukarno, with both agreeing to a United Nations Trusteeship but disagreeing...
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conflict with Indonesia. On 26 September 1961, the Dutch Foreign Minister JosephLuns offered to hand over West New Guinea to a United Nations trusteeship...
Zbigniew Brzezinski; former NATO Secretary-Generals Javier Solana and JosephLuns; and Council on Foreign Relations co-founder Paul D. Cravath. Transatlantic...
by such democrats in the Benelux countries as Paul-Henri Spaak, JosephLuns and Joseph Bech as well as a large wave of other pro-Europeans in all the Community...
advancement of Ukrainian science and culture. This period was cut short when Joseph Stalin became the leader of the USSR following Lenin's death. Stalin did...
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attended by Secretary of Defense Harold Brown, NATO Secretary General JosephLuns and U.S. Ambassador to NATO William Tapley Bennett Jr. In 1979, Haig...
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first-hand a Nuremberg Rally in 1937, where he met leading Nazis Hermann Göring, Joseph Goebbels, and Heinrich Himmler at an SS cocktail party. He later described...
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better balance of powers within the cabinet. It was an odd situation that JosephLuns, who was a member of the Catholic People's Party, was Minister without...
position combined with discriminatory practice of Dutch Foreign minister JosephLuns toward Papuan delegation that he knew from his nephew, Marie Papare,...
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