Theo_Tromp

Theo Tromp

Theo Tromp

Dutch politician and engineer


Theodoor Philibert "Theo" Tromp (9 June 1903, Voorburg 1 June 1984, Eindhoven) was a Dutch politician and engineer.

Ir. Th. Ph. Tromp, 1937

Tromp was a mechanical engineer working at Philips since 1927, who in 1945, in the last Dutch government in exile (cabinet-Gerbrandy III), was Minister of Water Management. Before that he already was a member of the College of Agriculture, Trade and Industry in the liberated south. From 1947 he was a member of Philips' board of directors, of which he was vice president from 1957 until his retirement in 1967. He was known to Philips as a fairly authoritarian manager.



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