27 Facts About Derk Boswijk

Derk Geertsz Boswijk was born on 8 April 1989 and is a Dutch politician serving as a member of the House of Representatives since the 2021 general election.

Derk Boswijk's father worked as manager of a packaging materials factory.

Derk Boswijk attended the high school Driestar College in Gouda at level between 2001 and 2005 and was trained in architectural engineering at the school ROC ASA in Utrecht until 2009.

Besides, Derk Boswijk wrote a book called based on letters by his great-grandfather Cornelis Treur, who left the Netherlands in 1913 to live in United States.

Derk Boswijk participated in the 2015 provincial election in Utrecht as the CDA's sixth candidate and was elected to the States of Utrecht, where he focussed on the environment, mobility, and the economy.

Derk Boswijk kept working at Bosons until 2016, when he left to work as property developer at real estate investment firm Heyen Beheer.

Derk Boswijk was re-elected in the 2019 election as his party's lead candidate and became caucus leader.

Derk Boswijk became a reserve officer in the Royal Netherlands Army the following year.

Derk Boswijk was elected member of parliament in the March 2021 general election, being placed 14th on the CDA's party list.

Derk Boswijk received 1,603 preference votes after a campaign in which he talked about what he perceived as a lack of attention by the House of Representatives for people with a vocational education.

Derk Boswijk left Heyen Beheer, and he vacated his seat in the States of Utrecht the following month.

Derk Boswijk's specialties were initially agriculture and defense, but they changed to foreign affairs, defense, climate, and energy near the end of his first term.

Derk Boswijk defended his plans during a speech at a farmers' protest the day after he had announced them.

Derk Boswijk later offered a five-step plan to nature and nitrogen policy minister Christianne van der Wal, in which he outlined a localized approach as opposed to a generic one to reduce reactive nitrogen emission.

Derk Boswijk complained that the cabinet was mostly focused on cutting agricultural emissions while not creating as detailed plans for other sectors.

In June 2022, Derk Boswijk defied the advice of the counter-terrorism unit NCTV to not attend a farmer's protest in Stroe.

Derk Boswijk proposed in late 2022 that dairy companies should be forced to use at least a certain percentage of sustainable milk in their products.

Derk Boswijk had contact with people in Afghanistan in order to help them get evacuated.

Derk Boswijk was in favor of a voluntary system similar to that of Sweden, where only motivated citizens are invited.

Derk Boswijk was the CDA's national campaign leader for the 2022 municipal elections as well as the in his home municipality of Stichtse Vecht in those elections.

Derk Boswijk again ran the CDA's national campaign for the 2023 provincial elections.

Party leader Wopke Hoekstra announced he would no longer be the CDA's lead candidate, and Derk Boswijk applied to succeed him.

Derk Boswijk endorsed Henri Bontenbal, when the board nominated him as the new party leader.

Derk Boswijk was re-elected after he was placed third on the party list, while his specialties changed to foreign affairs, foreign trade, development cooperation, justice, security, and defense.

Derk Boswijk married Wilma Kroon in 2013, and they have three daughters.

Derk Boswijk resides in the village of Kockengen in the province Utrecht, having lived in nearby Wilnis before, and he is a member of the Reformed Association in the Protestant Church in the Netherlands.

Derk Boswijk tried to climb Mont Blanc in 2016 to raise money for the hearing loss foundation Hear the World, as his eldest daughter was born with the condition.