Genealogy Naessens » Louis Constant Westenenk (1872-1930)

Personal data Louis Constant Westenenk 


Household of Louis Constant Westenenk

(1) He had a relationship with Ada Joanna Adriana ("Adri") Nering Bögel.


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(2) He is married to Digna Nering Bögel.

They got married May 1929, he was 57 years old.


Notes about Louis Constant Westenenk

1905 - Becomes "Controleur" of Agam, based in Fort de Kock (now called Bukit Tinggi).

In March 1914 acepts a newly-created function of "Inspector General" in Turkish Armenia, arrives in Istanbul at the beginning of May 1914, but the outbreak of World War I and rabid Turkish nationalism soon made his job difficult if not impossible and in January 1915 he is told that the Turkish Government no longer sees any benefit in his involvement. Westenenk returns to the Dutch East Indies soon after.

2 August 1915 - Arrival in Benkoelen as the new Resident.

Becomes Gouvernor of Sumatra East Coast in November 1920, based in Deli.

Returned to Holland in 1926.
Admitted to hospital for a prostate operation at the end of April 1930, but dies within days of a pulmonary embolism.

His second wife, Digna, was a cousin of his first wife, Adri.

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Day of cremation May 2, 1930

  • The temperature on May 2, 1930 was between 5.9 °C and 20.7 °C and averaged 13.6 °C. There was 11.3 hours of sunshine (76%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-northeast. Source: KNMI
  • Koningin Wilhelmina (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1948 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
  • In The Netherlands , there was from August 10, 1929 to May 26, 1933 the cabinet Ruys de Beerenbrouck III, with Jonkheer mr. Ch.J.M. Ruys de Beerenbrouck (RKSP) as prime minister.
  • In the year 1930: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 7.8 million citizens.
    • February 10 » The Việt Nam Quốc Dân Đảng launches the failed Yên Bái mutiny in hope to overthrow French protectorate over Vietnam.
    • March 13 » The news of the discovery of Pluto is announced by Lowell Observatory.
    • March 29 » Heinrich Brüning is appointed German Reichskanzler.
    • June 17 » U.S. President Herbert Hoover signs the Smoot–Hawley Tariff Act into law.
    • October 5 » British airship R101 crashes in France en route to India on its maiden voyage.
    • December 7 » W1XAV in Boston, Massachusetts telecasts video from the CBS radio orchestra program, The Fox Trappers. The telecast also includes the first television commercial in the United States, an advertisement for I.J. Fox Furriers, who sponsored the radio show.

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