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Personal data Herman van Ark 


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Notes about Herman van Ark

Herman van Ark startte in 1951 in een commerciële functie bij Arks Bakkerijen BV, een familiebedrijf dat door drie broers uit de vorige generatie van Ark is opgezet.

Op 82-jarige leeftijd is donderdag overleden Herman van Ark.

Hij was bij zijn leven een prominente inwoner van Heerde, niet alleen vanwege het gegeven dat hij jarenlang als directeur was verbonden aan de Van Ark-bakkerijen, maar ook bekleedde hij in het maatschappelijk leven van Heerde en daarbuiten tal van functies.

De fabrieksmatige beschuitbakkerij startte in de jaren twintig, oorspronkelijk midden in het Heerder dorp, waar nu bakkerij Kamphorst is gevestigd.

Begin dertiger jaren verhuisde het bedrijf naar de huidige locatie in het markante pand aan de Zwolseweg in Heerde. Deze werd later uitgebreid met de fabricage van ontbijtkoek en koekjes. In 1975 onderdeel geworden van de Bolletje onderneming.

Vanaf de jaren zestig werd Van Ark commercieel en weer later algemeen directeur van Arks. Tot zijn 72ste was hij commissaris van Bolletje.

Verder was Van Ark bestuurslid van Verbisko, de landelijke brancheorganisatie voor beschuit, ontbijtkoek en koekjesfabrikanten. Hij leidde in die tijd de CAO-onderhandelingen met werknemersorganisaties.

Voorts was hij voorzitter van de stichting Studiecentrum Zoetwaren.

In de jaren tachtig en negentig was hij vele jaren voorzitter van de Raad van Toezicht van de Rabobank Heerde.

Daarnaast was hij voorzitter van de Jan Nienhuisvereniging, die onder zijn leiding is omgevormd tot een op moderne leest geschoeide vereniging, die subsidies verstrekt aan plaatselijke verenigingen en stichtingen.

Als voorzitter van de plaatselijke scoutingorganisatie realiseerde hij de eerste clubhuizen aan de Kooiweg. Voor al zijn activiteiten ontving hij een koninklijke onderscheiding als Ridder in de orde van Oranje Nassau.

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Historical events

Birthday August 29, 1928

  • The temperature on August 29, 1928 was between 10.6 °C and 22.2 °C and averaged 16.1 °C. There was 0.5 mm of rain. There was 6.0 hours of sunshine (43%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the southwest. 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 March 8, 1926 to August 10, 1929 the cabinet De Geer I, with Jonkheer mr. D.J. de Geer (CHU) as prime minister.
  • In the year 1928: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 7.6 million citizens.
    • January 7 » A disastrous flood of the River Thames kills 14 people and causes extensive damage to much of riverside London.
    • June 9 » Charles Kingsford Smith completes the first trans-Pacific flight in a Fokker Trimotor monoplane, the Southern Cross.
    • July 7 » Sliced bread is sold for the first time (on the inventor's 48th birthday) by the Chillicothe Baking Company of Chillicothe, Missouri.
    • August 27 » The Kellogg–Briand Pact outlawing war is signed by fifteen nations. Ultimately sixty-one nations will sign it.
    • October 22 » Phi Sigma Alpha fraternity is founded at the University of Puerto Rico.
    • December 6 » The government of Colombia sends military forces to suppress a month-long strike by United Fruit Company workers, resulting in an unknown number of deaths.

Day of death January 6, 2011

  • The temperature on January 6, 2011 was between 3.3 °C and 5.2 °C and averaged 4.4 °C. There was 15.5 mm of rain during 16.8 hours. The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the southwest. Source: KNMI
  • Koningin Beatrix (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from April 30, 1980 till April 30, 2013 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
  • In The Netherlands , there was from Thursday, October 14, 2010 to Monday, November 5, 2012 the cabinet Rutte I, with Mark Rutte (VVD) as prime minister.
  • In the year 2011: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 16.5 million citizens.
    • January 27 » Arab Spring: The Yemeni Revolution begins as over 16,000 protestors demonstrate in Sana'a.
    • February 19 » The debut exhibition of the Belitung shipwreck, containing the largest collection of Tang dynasty artifacts found in one location, begins in Singapore.
    • February 22 » Bahraini uprising: Tens of thousands of people march in protest against the deaths of seven victims killed by police and army forces during previous protests.
    • February 22 » New Zealand's second deadliest earthquake strikes Christchurch, killing 185 people.
    • April 29 » The Wedding of Prince William and Catherine Middleton takes place at Westminster Abbey in London.
    • May 11 » An earthquake of magnitude 5.1 hits Lorca, Spain.

Day of burial January 12, 2011

  • The temperature on January 12, 2011 was between 2.9 °C and 8.5 °C and averaged 5.7 °C. There was 10.5 mm of rain during 13.6 hours. The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest. Source: KNMI
  • Koningin Beatrix (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from April 30, 1980 till April 30, 2013 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
  • In The Netherlands , there was from Thursday, October 14, 2010 to Monday, November 5, 2012 the cabinet Rutte I, with Mark Rutte (VVD) as prime minister.
  • In the year 2011: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 16.5 million citizens.
    • January 9 » Iran Air Flight 277 crashes near Urmia in the northwest of the country, killing 77 people.
    • March 15 » Beginning of the Syrian Civil War.
    • May 2 » An E. coli outbreak strikes Europe, mostly in Germany, leaving more than 30 people dead and many others sick from the bacteria outbreak.
    • July 8 » Space Shuttle Atlantis is launched in the final mission of the U.S. Space Shuttle program.
    • August 6 » War in Afghanistan: A United States military helicopter is shot down, killing 30 American special forces members and a working dog, seven Afghan soldiers, and one Afghan civilian. It was the deadliest single event for the United States in the War in Afghanistan.
    • September 18 » The 2011 Sikkim earthquake is felt across northeastern India, Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh and southern Tibet.


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