Johan van Minnen

Johan Tjitze van Minnen (31 October 1932 – 18 April 2016) was a Dutch journalist and politician. He was a foreign correspondent in first Luxembourg and later West Germany. From 1975 and 1978, he was the ombudsman of the television show "De Ombudsman". 
Van Minnen served as a member of the European Parliament for the Labour Party between 1979 and 1984.
Van Minnen died on 18 April 2016 in Zeist, Netherlands, aged 83.