Gijs van Hall
Dutch politician (1904–1977)
Gijsbert "Gijs" van Hall (21 April 1904 – 22 May 1977) was a Dutch banker, resistance member and senator. He was Mayor of Amsterdam between 1957 and 1967.
Early life and banking career
Gijs van Hall was born in Amsterdam in an influential Dutch family of bankers. At a young age, much of his early school career was interrupted due to infections of tuberculosis. Between 1923 and 1928 he studied law at the University of Leiden.
Van Hall went in 1928 to work at the American investment firm Kean, Taylor & co., a temporary assignment where he hoped to gain experience with the financial system that he could use back home. He worked on Wall Street in New York City for three years before returning to the Netherlands to work at the Nederlandse Trust Maatschappij. During much of the 1930s, he was involved in guiding debt restructuring procedures caused by the Great Depression. During the restructuring of the Leerdam glass factory, he became interested in the idea of consulting workers to opine on company decisions in order to foster trust between workers and upper management.
Dutch resistance movement
During the German occupation of the Netherlands Gijs van Hall co-founded the Nationaal Steunfonds (NSF) with his brother Walraven van Hall, which financed much of the operations of the Dutch resistance forces.
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