Family tree of Hendrik VERWOERD

African politician

South African Born Hendrik Frensch VERWOERD

7th Prime Minister of South Africa

Born on September 8, 1901 in Amsterdam, Netherlands

Died on September 6, 1966 in Cape Town, South Africa

Born on september 08 43

Deceased on september 06 25

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Verwoerd

Arie

1812 - 1853

Van Berkel

Elisabeth

1818 - 1896

Van Rijnbach

Joannes Wilhelm

1809 -

Drokan

Hanna Josina

1807 -

Strik

Frens

1811 -

Nieuwenhuis

Aaltje

1812 -

Beerta

Julle Taekes

1801 -

De Boer

Sytske Willems

1803 -

Verwoerd

Leendert

1844 - 1909

Van Rijnbach

Hendrika Johanna Lucretia

1844 - 1920

Strik

Hendrik

1844 - 1884

Beerta

Aaltje

1842 - 1884

Verwoerd

Willem Johannes

1874 - 1961

Strik

Antje

1873 - 1940

Verwoerd

Hendrik Frensch

1901 - 1966

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Verwoerd was born in the Netherlands, thus making him the only person to become a South African prime minister who was not a South African by birth. He was the second child of Anje Strik and Wilhelmus Johannes Verwoerd: he had an elder brother named Leendert and a younger sister named Lucie. His father was a shopkeeper and a deeply religious man who decided to move his family to South Africa in 1903 because of his sympathy towards the Afrikaner nation after the Second Boer War.