Frederik "Fré" Meis (17 November 1921 – 15 December 1992) was a Dutch communist politician and trade unionist.

In 1943, during World War II, he became a forced labourer in Delfzijl, and later was ordered to build bunkers on the German island of Borkum.

[6] On 22 September 1969, the employees of the cardboard factory Union in Oude Pekela called a Monday wildcat strike and demanded the same wages as their colleagues in the west of the country.

[8][9] At the 1970 Dutch provincial elections [nl] in Groningen the Communist Party scored an electoral victory with 14% of the votes.

The CPN dispatched Meis to Rotterdam, who quickly became the leader of the strike, and ensured that all demands were met.

[1] In 1992, he resigned from GroenLinks after fellow party member Herman Verbeek had made a remark about the old-Stalinists.

[16] In 2002, a statue of Fré Meis by Christine Chiffrun [nl] was revealed in Oude Pekela.