Jaap Metz
{{Short description|Dutch politician}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=June 2016}}
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|caption = Metz after being sworn into office in 1982
|office1 = Member of the House of Representatives
|term_start1 = 22 November 1982
|term_end1 = 3 June 1986
|birth_date = {{Birth date|1941|08|06|df=yes}}
|birth_place = Amsterdam, Netherlands
|death_date = {{Death date and age|2016|05|27|1941|08|06|df=yes}}
|death_place = Haarlem, Netherlands
|party = People's Party for Freedom and Democracy
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Jacob Jan "Jaap" Metz (6 August 1941 – 27 May 2016) was a Dutch politician. He was a member of the House of Representatives for the People's Party for Freedom and Democracy between 1982 and 1986. Before his time in office Metz was a journalist at De Telegraaf.
Career
Metz was born on 6 August 1941 in Amsterdam.{{cite web|author= |url=http://www.parlement.com/id/vg09llnplzzm/j_j_jaap_metz |title=J.J. (Jaap) Metz |language=Dutch |publisher=Parlement.com |date= |access-date=22 May 2016}} After completing his primary and secondary education in Amsterdam Metz started working for the newspaper De Telegraaf in 1962. He started as financial-economic editor and later also worked on police news. He had a three-year stint as journalist at Algemeen Handelsblad from 1969 to 1972 and then returned to De Telegraaf where he became head of the newsservice. Metz quit his job in 1982 and became politically active in the municipal council of Opmeer in September. On 22 November he also became member of the House of Representatives for the People's Party for Freedom and Democracy.
Shortly before being sworn in as a member of the House of Representatives information surfaced on paid advice Metz had given to a real estate company while working for De Telegraaf.{{cite web|author= |url=http://www.parlement.com/id/vk4ibwcik6yu/nieuws/oud_vvd_tweede_kamerlid_jaap_metz |title=Oud-VVD-Tweede Kamerlid Jaap Metz overleden |language=Dutch |publisher=Parlement.com |date=30 May 2016 |access-date=4 June 2016}} Metz allegedly influenced information that was published on the company in the newspaper and came to blows with fellow journalist Peter R. de Vries.{{cite web|author=Matthijs Prinzen |url=http://www.hpdetijd.nl/2011-09-23/telegraaf-moet-zich-wel-distantieren-van-koolhoven-maar-paradijs/ |title='Telegraaf moet zich wel distantiëren van Koolhoven, maar Paradijs zal niet terugtreden' |language=Dutch |publisher=HP/De tijd |date=23 September 2011 |access-date=4 June 2016}} Party fraction leader Ed Nijpels accepted Metz' explanation that the advice given did not concern core business of the company. Several months later newspaper De Tijd claimed Nijpels had been blackmailed by Metz, so that the latter could keep his seat in the House.{{cite web|author= |url=http://www.npogeschiedenis.nl/andere-tijden/afleveringen/2006-2007/De-VVD-van-Nijpels.html |title=De VVD van Nijpels |language=Dutch |publisher=NPO Geschiedenis |date= |access-date=4 June 2016}} Metz pressed charges of slander, defamation and insult against the newspaper. The charges were dropped two years later.{{cite web|author=Milja de Zwart |url=http://www.volkskrant.nl/politiek/beeldvorming-deed-meer-kamerleden-sneuvelen~a471982/ |title=Beeldvorming deed meer Kamerleden sneuvelen |language=Dutch |publisher=de Volkskrant |date=7 April 1998 |access-date=4 June 2016}}
Metz remained a backbencher throughout his term in office, which ended on 3 June 1986. He died in Haarlem on 27 May 2016, aged 74.
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Category:Journalists from Amsterdam
Category:Members of the House of Representatives (Netherlands)
Category:Municipal councillors in North Holland
Category:Politicians from Amsterdam
Category:People's Party for Freedom and Democracy politicians