Willem Witteveen

Willem Witteveen
Witteveen in January 2014
Member of the Senate
In office
15 January 2013 – 17 July 2014
In office
8 June 1999 – 12 June 2007
Personal details
Born
Willem Johannes Witteveen

(1952-05-05)5 May 1952
Rotterdam, Netherlands
Died17 July 2014(2014-07-17) (aged 62)
Malaysian Airlines Flight 17, near Hrabove, Ukraine
Cause of deathAircraft shootdown
Political partyLabour Party (1994–2014)
Spouse
Lidwien Heerkens
(m. 1978; died 2014)
ChildrenMarit (d. 2014)
Freek
Parents
Residence(s)Breda, Netherlands
Alma materLeiden University
OccupationPolitician, professor, author

Willem Johannes Witteveen (Dutch pronunciation: [ˈʋɪləm joˈɦɑnəs ˈʋɪtəˌveːn]; 5 May 1952 – 17 July 2014) was a Dutch legal scholar, politician, and author. He was a law professor at Tilburg University (1990–2014) and a Member of the Senate for the Labour Party (1999–2007; 2013–2014). He was also the author of several books about law and politics. Witteveen was killed on 17 July 2014 when the flight he was travelling on, Malaysia Airlines Flight 17, was shot down over eastern Ukraine.