Frederik Hendrik Fentener van Vlissingen (Amsterdam, July 20, 1882 - Vught, July 30, 1962). This son of a prosperous coal dealer made his family (Fentener van Vlissingen) the richest of the Netherlands because of his commercial insight and great intelligence.
The man, who was also called 'The Man With the Double Brain', began in 1905 as a 22-year-old in his father's Coal Trading Vereeniging (SHV). He expanded the company and also contributed to the financing of the manufacture of art side. In 1929, he financed the foundation of the General Art Page Union (AKU), the forerunner of AkzoNobel.
In addition, Fentener van Vlissingen was one of eight founders of the Royal Airline Society for the Netherlands and Colonies on October 7, 1919. Among other things, through his contribution, a start-up capital of 1.2 million guilders came together for the establishment of the KLM.
In the 1930s, the entrepreneur pleaded for peace and economic cooperation with Germany. He was distinguished by Hitler before the war and, in 1940, was still a commissioner at the German Vereinigte Stahlwerke, but at the end of the German occupation he resisted. After the war he developed himself as an art protector.
The University of Utrecht awarded an honorary doctorate in law in 1936 to Fentener van Vlissingen.
He married Sophie Schout Velthuys (1882-1976), counted from a Utrecht banker's slave (Bank Vlaer & Kol). Her first name was used in the name of the SHV coal mine Sophia-Jacoba. Her twin sister Mies (1882-1925) married his SHV companion and later rival Daniel George van Beuningen.
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