Date of birth: November 17, 1949
Place of birth: Weidum, Province of Friesland, the Netherlands (mother tongue: Frisian)
Marital Status: Married since 1974 with Detta Miedema-Leeffers (1951); 3 children: Radboud (1979) partner Eva Miedema-Pouw (1984), grandson Joep (2010), granddaughter Roos (2012); Welmoed (1981) partner Dalyan Güner (1984) with his son Milan (2011) and daughter Ayza (2013) & Narda (1984)
Religion: Christian (Protestant), with charismatical flavor and interreligious openness
Hobbies: music (trombone, baritone sax, bastuba, singing), sports (tennis, racing bicycle, swimming), writing poems, sculpturing (stone)