Jan van den Tempel

{{Short description|Dutch politician (1877–1955)}}

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{{Infobox officeholder

|honorific-prefix = His Excellency

|name = Jan van den Tempel

|image = Jan van den Tempel 1942 (1).jpg

|caption = Jan van den Tempel in 1942

|office = Minister of Commerce, Industry and Shipping

|term_start = 17 November 1941

|term_end = 8 January 1942
Ad interim

|primeminister = Pieter Sjoerds Gerbrandy

|predecessor = Max Steenberghe

|successor = Piet Kerstens

|office2 = Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries

|term_start2 = 17 November 1941

|term_end2 = 8 January 1942
Ad interim

|primeminister2 = Pieter Sjoerds Gerbrandy

|predecessor2 = Max Steenberghe

|successor2 = Piet Kerstens

|office3 = Minister of Social Affairs

|term_start3 = 10 August 1939

|term_end3 = 23 February 1945

|primeminister3 = Dirk Jan de Geer
(1939–1940)
Pieter Sjoerds Gerbrandy
(1940–1945)

|predecessor3 = Marinus Damme

|successor3 = Frans Wijffels

|office4 = Member of the House of Representatives

|term_start4 = 10 November 1915

|term_end4 = 10 August 1939

|constituency4 = Amsterdam IX (1915–1918)

|birthname = Jan van den Tempel

|birth_date = {{Birth date|1877|08|01|df=y}}

|birth_place = Willemstad, Netherlands

|death_date = {{Death date and age|1955|06|27|1877|08|01|df=y}}

|death_place = Amsterdam, Netherlands

|death_cause = Peptic ulcer disease

|party = Labour Party (from 1946)

|otherparty = Social Democratic Workers' Party (until 1946)

|spouse = {{marriage|Arnolda Jansen|12 March 1903}}

|children = Bas van den Tempel (1905–1992)
1 other son and 1 daughter

|residence =

|alma_mater = Netherlands School of Commerce
(Bachelor of Economics, Master of Economics, Doctor of Philosophy)

|occupation = Politician · Civil servant · Economist · Trade union leader · Nonprofit director · Managing editor · Author

|signature =

|website =

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Jan van den Tempel (1 August 1877 – 27 June 1955) was a Dutch politician of the defunct Social Democratic Workers' Party (SDAP).{{cite web|url=http://resources.huygens.knaw.nl/bwn1880-2000/lemmata/bwn2/tempel|title=Tempel, Jan van den (1877-1955)|publisher=Huygens ING|date=12 November 2013|access-date=13 January 2019|language=nl}}