Early Life
Johan Kremers was born on May 10, 1933 in Nieuwenhagen, a village in the province of Limburg, in the very south of The Netherlands. His father was a miner who worked 37 years underground in the Laura mine in Eygelshoven.
From 1951 to 1957 he studied psychology at the Catholic University of Nijmegen (presently known als the Radboud University Nijmegen). In 1960 he obtained his doctorate in social sciences at the Nijmegen University. He was a scientific research worker at the psychological laboratory of the University of California at Berkeley in the United States from 1960 up to 1961. From 1961 until 1972 he worked at the Catholic University of Nijmegen.
In 1972 Dr. Kremers became a member of the Wetenschappelijke Raad voor het Regeringsbeleid, an independent think tank for the Dutch government.
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