Ferry Hoogendijk

Ferdinand Alexander "Ferry" Hoogendijk (23 November 1933 – 14 February 2014) was a Dutch journalist and politician.

At the ceremony on 12 March 1971 his paranymphs were Norbert Schmelzer and Haya van Someren.

[1] The career of journalism of Hoogendijk started in 1960 at the Algemene Vereniging Radio Omroep, a Dutch public broadcaster.

[2] Amongst others he secretly wrote campaign texts for parliamentary leader Hans Wiegel of the People's Party for Freedom and Democracy.

[4] In 2002 he joined the Pim Fortuyn List and helped with the search for party candidates.

He managed to make his neighbor Herman Heinsbroek join, who would later become Minister of Economic Affairs, the function that Hoogendijk ambitioned for.