Sybrand van Haersma Buma

Sybrand van Haersma Buma
Mayor of Leeuwarden
Assumed office
26 August 2019
Preceded byFerd Crone
Leader of the Christian Democratic Appeal
In office
30 June 2012 – 22 May 2019
Preceded byMaxime Verhagen
Succeeded byHugo de Jonge
Leader of the Christian Democratic Appeal in the House of Representatives
In office
12 October 2010 – 21 May 2019
Preceded byMaxime Verhagen
Succeeded byPieter Heerma
Member of the House of Representatives
In office
23 May 2002 – 29 May 2019
Personal details
Born
Sybrand van Haersma Buma

(1965-07-30) 30 July 1965 (age 58)
Workum, Friesland, Netherlands
Political partyChristian Democratic Appeal
SpouseMarijke Geertsema
Children2
EducationUniversity of Groningen (LLB, LLM)
Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge (LLM)

Sybrand van Haersma Buma (Dutch pronunciation: [ˈsibrɑnt fɑn ˈɦaːrsmaː ˈbymaː];[1][2] West Frisian: [sibrɑnd vɑn 'hɛrsma 'byma]; born 30 July 1965) is a Dutch politician serving as Mayor of Leeuwarden since 2019.[3] Until 2019, he was a member of the House of Representatives from 2002 who also served as the parliamentary leader of the Christian Democratic Appeal (CDA) from 2010 and as the leader of his party from 2012.[4]

  1. ^ In isolation, van is pronounced [vɑn].
  2. ^ The family Van Haersma Buma is a branch of the old Frisian Buma dynasty, dating back to foremother Jouck Goris Buma, who married Wijbe Fennes in 1646. Bernhardus Buma (1770–1838) was burgomaster of Leeuwarden. His son, Wiardus Willem Buma married Maria de With (1803–1878), who was a daughter of Catharina van Haersma (1764–1824). When the Van Haersma family became extinct, their son Sijbrand Buma (1830–1886) bought the right to add the Van Haersma name to his own in 1870, starting the Van Haersma Buma branch of the Buma family (the other branch is the Hopperus Buma branch). Sybrand usually went by "Buma" in his public life. Cf.Nederland's Patriciaat 77 (1993), p. 132-177.
  3. ^ "Sybrand Buma geïnstalleerd als burgemeester van Leeuwarden". Nu.nl. 26 August 2019. Retrieved 28 August 2019.
  4. ^ "Mr. S. (Sybrand) van Haersma Buma". Parlement.com. Retrieved 28 August 2019.

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