Martin Konings

Johannes Martinus (Martin) King ( 's-Hertogenbosch , March 15 1929 ) is a Dutch former politician for the Labour Party . In his political career was the king Limburg education spokesman of the parliamentary group of the Labour Party. He himself was in the years before he entered politics teacher electrical engineering in vocational education .

Konings studied at the Technical Grammar School in Maastricht, followed by a course at the Public Elementary Technical School 's-Hertogenbosch. At the Higher Technical School in Heerlen Konings studied from 1954 to 1956, he continued in a teacher training program for the education industry .Between his training by King worked as a mechanic at various companies. Since 1959, after completing his teacher training, he joined the Primary Technical School as a teacher. He did this for two years, after which he continued his work as a teacher of electrical engineering at the Secondary Technical School, which he did until 1973. He continued his career as a lecturer at the Teacher Education for the Industry. Following this position, he finished his school career and became a member of parliament . There he was involved in the initiative legislation on education with varying success. One success was his proposal to the four-year secondary education are integral to four years. He also dealt with the environmental legislation and fisheries matters. Konings was education spokesman in the House. He was a pacifist atom, and therefore each voted against all articles of the Defence budgets were related to nuclear weapons .