Bastiaan Wouter Haveman was born in 1908 in Wijnjeterp, Friesland. He grew up as a pastor’s son with four brothers and a sister. He obtained his master’s degree in chemical engineering in Delft and subsequently graduated in Dutch law in Leiden. In 1951 he married Louise Hendrika van Loon.
Before 1940 and again after 1945 he worked at the Ministries of Education, Arts and Sciences, General Affairs and from 1950 at the Ministry of Transport, Public Works and Water Management. That same year he was sent as a Dutch delegate to the Special Committee on Refugees and Displaced Persons of the United Nations, which was charged with establishing the International Refugee Organisation.
During the war, Haveman was active in the Dutch Union, after it was banned by the Germans at the end of 1941. In May 1945 he was one of the founders of the Dutch People’s Movement and the Labor Party, where he became a member of the first party board.
In November 1950 he was appointed Emigration Commissioner for the Netherlands. From 1962-1969 he was also Director of the Intergovernmental Committee for European Migration in Geneva. He returned to the Netherlands as a citizen without office.
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