Ypke Gietema

Ypke Hein Gietema ( Maarn , January 4th 1942 - March 9 2013 ) was a Dutch politician . He was a member of the Labour Party and from 1978 until 1992 councilor in themunicipality of Groningen . ==Life and Work [  edit ] == Gietema was the son of a pastor. He was born in Utrecht Maarn and grew from his eighth in the Frisian Cornjum . After secondary school in Leeuwarden through to have studied sociology at the University of Groningen and was subsequently appointed in 1969 as a teacher and coordinator at the then School of Social and Cultural Labour(ASCA) in Groningen. In 1974 he was elected councilor of the municipality of Groningen . He was on the list of candidates to a twentieth place, too low to be directly elected, but after two party members abandoning their appointment at that time was 32 ​​years Gietema yet councilor. Immediately after his appointment, he was chosen by his group to group chairman .

In 1978 Gietema followed his party colleague Max van den Berg as alderman of Spatial Planning . Gietema developed into one of the driving forces behind different - often controversial - projects in Groningen, including the construction of the Groninger Museum .

Gietema in August 1990 became embroiled in a political riot on the cost of the establishment of the alderman rooms. The magazine Private House and Interior revealed that his conference table and accompanying chairs together more than 5,300 guilders had cost. The opposition party GroenLinks demanded clarification. Gietema called the criticism "absurd". [1]

In 1992 Gietema resigned following the Groninger Kredietbank affair . In the same year he won the Rotterdam-Maaskant Prize for his contribution to the architecture .

After his departure as alderman got Gietema struggling with illness. Later he was involved in "making feasible for society of important issues in the broadest sense and especially with regard to design and design of public space." In 1996 he was jury president of the biennial Omgevingsarchitectuurprijs . [2]

About Gietema in 2007 by Jasper Huizinga and Lotte Veltman made ​​the documentary "Ypke".

A feature in national politics, he has, in his own words, never hoped for. "Let me just nice to fool around in the province," was his motto. [3]

Gietema died in 2013 at age 71 from the effects of the disease cancer . [4] ==<span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[Bibliography  edit <span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] ==
 * F. ten Cate, Ex-councilor Gietema: An attractive building is beautiful, but the public areas give the city its character, interview with the departure of Gietema as alderman of Groningen in: Home Affairs, 1992
 * Gietema, Ypke et al wrap: Ypke Gietema and the city of Groningen, on the occasion of the presentation of the Rotterdam-Maaskant Prize, Rotterdam, 1992