Emanuel Boekman

Emanuel ("Manus") Boekman (15 August 1889 – 15 May 1940) was a Dutch social democratic politician, statistician, demographer and typographer.

He was interested in politics and became a chairman of his trade union, the Typografen Jongelingen Vereeniging (Young Typographer's Society).

From 1921 up to his death in 1940, Boekman was a member of the Amsterdam city council for the Dutch Social Democratic Workers' Party (SDAP).

On capitulation day 15 May 1940, Boekman and his wife committed suicide together with their friends, the family of the social democrat professor Bob van Gelderen.

In 1963 the Boekman Foundation (Boekmanstichting) was established, named after him by the Federatie van Kunstenaarsverenigingen (Federation of artist's societies).

Alderman Boekman delivers the opening speech for a checkers worldchampion duel between Raichenbach and Vos. Polygoon cinema newsreel of 1m 35s, Amterdam, 30 December 1935.