28 Facts About Albert Hertzog

Albert Hertzog served as the South African Minister of Health from 1954 to 1958 and as Minister of Post and Telecommunications from 1958 to 1968.

In 1969, after being purged from the National Party for his reactionary and exclusive Afrikaner Nationalist views, Albert Hertzog founded the Herstigte Nasionale Party.

Albert Hertzog was baptized on 31 August 1899 in the Moederkerk.

Albert Hertzog was only three months old when the Second Boer War broke out.

Albert Hertzog stayed in Stellenbosch in the house of his paternal grandfather, Charl Neethling, until the end of the war.

Albert Hertzog refused, and was sent via ship to the Merebank camp at Durban.

That move seemed baffling to some, because the Calvinist and Boer patriot General Albert Hertzog was a staunch proponent of Afrikaans language rights, especially in education.

In 1910, after the birth of the Union of South Africa, General Albert Hertzog was appointed in a dual portfolio as Minister of Justice and Minister of Native Affairs.

Albert Hertzog's father sent Albert to the Arcadia Skool, but Albert was disappointed that it had a headmistress and, though in the city, was no different to a farm school.

Albert Hertzog matriculated in 1916, having studied Dutch, English, Latin, Mathematics, and Physical Science.

Albert Hertzog then left for Europe on 6 August 1920, where he entered the University of Amsterdam.

Albert Hertzog was a supporter of Nazi Germany who sympathized with Nazi collaborator Robey Leibbrandt.

Albert Hertzog served as member of the House of Assembly under the tenure of Prime Ministers Malan and Hannes Strijdom.

Albert Hertzog described positive Afrikaners as "purpose conscious Afrikaners".

Albert Hertzog wants to lead us to rigidity; wants to exclude us from a new world; is a negativist.

Albert Hertzog is creative in his ability to sow distrust; hardened in the handling of one-sided slogans to generate witch hunts everywhere; accomplished in the technique of quibbling.

Albert Hertzog is without consideration and mercy, unwilling to converse, fanatic and extremist to enforce his opinion on a matter.

Albert Hertzog wants to forcefully push our youth into one-sidedness; haughty, stubborn self-preservation.

Albert Hertzog decided to retire as leader of the HNP in 1977, and gave his farewell address on 27 May of that year.

Albert Hertzog officially retired on 28 May 1977, and was followed by Jaap Marais as party leader.

Albert Hertzog died on 5 November 1982 during an emergency operation for a burst aorta.

Albert Hertzog's funeral was held on 11 November 1982, in the NG Kerk in Waterkloof, and the service led by prof.

Albert Hertzog was then laid to rest in the family cemetery on the farm Waterval, in the district of Witbank, next to his wife Katie, and close to his parents.

Albert Hertzog met Katherine Marjorie Whiteley, a South African born English girl in Oxford in 1926.

Albert Hertzog used no alcohol, and while he entertained visitors to his office on coffee or tea, he himself only drank whey, which he carried in a flask.

Albert Hertzog collected, aloes, succulents and rare cycads, some of which were over a thousand years old.

Albert Hertzog served as the Honorary President of the South African Aloe and Succulent Society for a number of years, until he resigned in 1972.

Albert Hertzog has been described as a nationalist Afrikaner and an "ultra-conservative".