Hans Wiegel

Hans Wiegel is a retired Dutch politician of the Peoples Party for Freedom and Democracy .

Hans Wiegel was born onJuly 1941 in Amsterdam in the Province of North Holland in a secular family as the only son of Wilhelm Wiegel III in Amsterdam and Sophia Maria Alberdina Smolenaars in Cimahi in the Dutch East Indies. After completing gymnasium in Hilversum in 1959, Wiegel started studying law at the University of Amsterdam. After a couple of months he switched his major to political science and earned a Bachelor of Social Science in 1965. He decided not to pursue a masters degree. Instead, he became involved in politics. Wiegel has been active within the youth wing of the Peoples Party for Freedom and Democracy, the Youth Organisation Freedom and Democracy, of which he had been a member since 1961. In 1963 he was appointed to its national board and served as Chairmen from 1965 until 1966.

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