Jan Nagel, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

    

Jan Nagel

politician and journalist

Date of Birth: 20-Jun-1939

Place of Birth: Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands

Profession: politician, television producer, journalist

Nationality: Kingdom of the Netherlands

Zodiac Sign: Gemini


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About Jan Nagel

  • Johan Georg "Jan" Nagel (born 20 June 1939) is a Dutch politician who was a member of the Labour Party, and later formed his own parties.
  • He is currently in the Pensioners' Party 50PLUS. Nagel started his career in his twenties on VARA-Radio where he worked as a producer.
  • At the same time he served as a member of the executive committee of the Dutch Labour Party.
  • Nagel was one of the creators of the radio-program called In de Rooie Haan.
  • He also wrote his Tien over Rood which served as a political manifesto of the Nieuw Links within the Dutch Labour Party.
  • From 1977 to 1983 Nagel was a PvdA deputy in the Dutch House of Representatives.
  • At VARA-Radio he eventually became the editor-in-chief of the Achter het Nieuws. Preoccupied with the problem of the widening gap between politics and people, he founded in 1993 a local party called Leefbaar Hilversum.
  • In 2001 he established Leefbaar Nederland where he worked with Henk Westbroek, Willem van Kooten, Ton Luiting, Broos Schnetz and Pim Fortuyn.
  • He has also been the party chairman of Leefbaar Nederland.
  • In 2005 there followed the Party for Justice, Action and Progress (in Dutch: Partij voor Rechtvaardigheid, Daadkracht en Vooruitgang (PRDV)) which he founded together with the former police spokesman Klaas Wilting, entrepreneur Peter Schouten and the party’s first lijsttrekker reporter Peter R.
  • de Vries.
  • His autobiography Boven het maaiveld was published in 2001.
  • Nagel participated in the Provincial States elections of 2 March 2011 as a founding member of 50PLUS.
  • His son in law is chess grandmaster Yasser Seirawan.

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