Il est marié avec Louise ("Wiesje") de Vos.
Ils se sont mariés à Bandung, West Java.
Hugo Adrianus and Louise were recorded as living in Bandung (Indonesia) in 1930.
After finishing high school in Ede he went to the Technical University in Delft to study engineering. He was particulalrly interested in aeronautical engineering and since this was not (yet) available at the Delft university he left Delft to study at the Ecole Supérieure d'Aeronautique in Paris. He graduated there in 1912 and then learned to fly aircraft from Didier and Martinet bij Brequet in Villacoublay, Compiègnes en Juvisy, gaining his "Aviator's Certificate" on 2 May 1913.
After working as an engineer and flying instructor with Brequet for a while he returned to The Netherlands where he became chief engineer at the recently created "Luchtvaartafdeling" (Aviation Depaetment) and the first head of the Engineering Section of the Aviation Department on 1 July in 1914, overseeing the construction of a number of Farman aircraft orderd in France.
During his time with the Dutch Aviation Department he also designed and built a twin-engined aircraft that could carry three people, the Vreeburg A2M.
Early in 1919 he resigned from the Aviation Department to move to the (then) Dutch East Indies where he become head of the Engineering Section of the "IIndische Luchtvaartafdeling" (Dutch East In dies Aviation Department) on 29 Jul 1919.
Soon after his appointment he took personal charge of the assembly of 24 AVRO and De Havilland aircraft ordered in Britain, followed in 1920 by another 14 De Havillands DH-9, eight Vickers Vikings and six 6 Fokker D-VIIs.
Ir (the Dutch acedemic title for university-trained engineers) Hugo Adrianus Vreeeburg remained in the Dutch East Indies right up to the time of the Japanese invasion and he subsequently spent three years in an Japanese concentration camp. He left the Dutch East Indies for good in 1945, going to Australia where he formally retired from the Dutch East Indies Government service and was repatriated to The Netherlands.
He died in The Hague on 4 September 1973, aged 84. The "Ir H.A. Vreeburg Hall" or "Vreeburghal" at the Dutch Military Aviation Museum in Soesterberg honours his name. It houses an extensive collection of military and Royal Dutch Air Force aircraft from the 1940s to the present day, while earlier machines dating from 1913-1945 are on show in the neighbouring Snijders Hall.
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