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Jhim van Bemmel

Dutch politician

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 4, 2025
Entity authorityQ1828835 ↗
Source-derived summary

Jhim Jan Gerardus van Bemmel (born 15 November 1959 in Boskoop) is a former Dutch politician. As a member of the Party for Freedom (Partij voor de Vrijheid) he was an MP from 17 June 2010 to 19 September 2012. Since 6 July 2012 he was an independent politician. He focused on matters of spatial planning, consumers, tourism, telecom, postal market, administrative burden and environmental law.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Jhim van Bemmel” is dutch politician. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Jhim, Bemmel and Dutch, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA productive starting point for separating a subject’s documented career from later reputation and commemoration. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1959, 2010, 2012—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1959-11-15. For this dossier, Jhim, Bemmel and Dutch is the immediate research focus.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The phrase “dutch politician” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.

Evidence profile

Chronology provides the most reliable spine for this subject; interpretation should follow only after identities and dates are secure. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jun 4, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q1828835. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1959, 2010 and 2012.

Critical limits

Public reputation and documentary evidence do not always develop together; absence from a summary is not evidence of historical absence. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

Read biographical claims against dates, named institutions and the cited references. Distinguish a subject’s later reputation from evidence produced during their lifetime.

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  • Establishing names and roles
  • Building a first chronology
  • Locating cited institutions
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Personal papers, civil or court records, institutional files and the scholarship cited by the source.

Three-step research path

  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “Jhim van Bemmel”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Jhim van Bemmel primary sources, Jhim van Bemmel archive and Jhim research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

  1. Which source most directly establishes the central claim about “Jhim van Bemmel”?
  2. How has the subject’s reputation changed across later accounts?
  3. Which primary records establish identity, chronology and institutional ties?
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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from “Jhim van Bemmel” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.