Editing Willem Drees (section)

==Personal life==
[[File:Willem Drees sr (1981).jpg|thumb|upright|Drees in his house in [[The Hague]], 2 July 1981]]

On 28 July 1910, Drees married Catharina Hent (6 May 1888 – 30 January 1974)<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.graftombe.nl/names/info/1187885/hent|title=Graftombe.nl – Informatie over Catharina Hent|website=www.graftombe.nl}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://seniorplaza.nl/drees/|title=SeniorPlaza – Willem Drees|website=seniorplaza.nl}}</ref> and had two sons and two daughters. Both his sons Jan Drees and [[Willem Drees Jr.]] were active members of the [[Labour Party (Netherlands)|Labour Party]], but left the party around 1970 to join the [[Democratic Socialists 1970]]. The cause was a row with younger party members who wanted to plot a more radical left-wing course for the party. Drees himself left the Labour Party in 1971 leaving them without their icon, but he never joined the [[Democratic Socialists 1970]].

Drees was a life-long [[Teetotalism|teetotaler]].<ref name="Biography Willem Drees"/> He was also an [[List of Esperanto speakers|Esperantist]] and addressed the 1954 [[World Esperanto Congress]], which was held in [[Haarlem]].<ref>[https://archive.today/20120722134309/http://uea.org/dokumentoj/bhh/rm1947-1974.html UEA: Reta Muzeo. Materialoj el Biblioteko Hector Hodler. 1947–1974<!-- Bot generated title -->] ''[[World Esperanto Association]]''.</ref>

Drees died on 14 May 1988 in [[The Hague]], at age 101.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1988/05/19/obituaries/willem-drees-dies-at-101-postwar-dutch-leader.html|title=Willem Drees Dies at 101; Postwar Dutch Leader|date=19 May 1988|website=The New York Times}}</ref> From 22 August 1986, when former Turkish [[President of Turkey|President]] [[Celâl Bayar]] died, until his own death Drees was the world's oldest living former head of government.

In 2004 he ended in third place in the election of [[De Grootste Nederlander|The Greatest Dutchman]].<ref>{{in lang|nl}} [http://www.nu.nl/algemeen/443284/pim-fortuyn-toch-niet-de-grootste-nederlander.html 'Pim Fortuyn toch niet de Grootste Nederlander'] ''[[NU.nl]]''</ref><ref>{{in lang|nl}} [http://www.geschiedenis24.nl/nieuws/2004/april/Zoektocht-naar-Grootste-Nederlander-begint.html Zoektocht naar ‘Grootste Nederlander’ begint] ''Geschiedenis24''</ref>