Gert Schutte

Gerrit Jan "Gert" Schutte (24 May 1939 – 25 January 2022) was a Dutch politician. In the 1980s and 1990s he was leading the Reformed Political Alliance ("Gereformeerd Politiek Verbond" - GPV), one of the two forerunners of the ChristianUnion.
After started his career in the civil service at several municipalities, Schutte was a member of the Provincial States of Utrecht from 5 June 1974 to 7 June 1978, and a member of the House of Representatives from 27 May 1981 to 14 February 2001.
Schutte was born in Nieuwpoort. He died on 25 January 2022 in Zeist, aged 82.