Willem Bruynzeel in 1968
Willem Bruynzeel (Rotterdam, March 2, 1901 - Zaandam, January 4, 1978) was a Dutch entrepreneur. He was the director of N.V. Bruynzeel's Vloerenfabriek N.V., Bruynzeel's Schaverij N.V., and N.V. Bruynzeel's Fineer Factory in Zaandam. Private life
His parents were Cornelis Bruynzeel Sr. and Antoinette Lels. He was married to Aleida Talma, daughter of Mr. Dr. Dirk Talma, Director of the Department of Finance at Batavia, later president of the General Syndicate of Sugar Industries in Netherlands-India at Surabaya and Neeltje Jacoba van Hattem. She gave him two daughters, Nelly and Aleida on September 28, 1929. Career
Bruynzeel visited Lyceum in 's-Gravenhage, then received private lessons and an architectural education at an architect. At the age of 18 he left for Yugoslavia, where he worked in the woods and at a sawmill. He also shipped a lot of wood from the firm that had ceased by the war and the revolution. After that he traveled to America, with 80 guild voyage on bag. He worked as a worker in various woodworking companies and returned to the Netherlands in 1922, after returning to the Netherlands with the money he deserved to have traveled to North America.
After that, he made a study trip to Sweden and Finland, after which he started independently with a scaffolding company, Bruynzeel's Schaverij NV. In 1925 he was appointed director of the Bruynzeel's Flooring Factory, Schaverij, sawmill and wood trade in Rotterdam, which company was moved to Zaandam to become a director of Bruynzeel's Schaverij NV in 1935. In July 1937, Bruynzeel made a study trip to Germany, Poland and America; After his return, he founded the Fineer Factory, the first in the Netherlands. He was a commissioner of several companies. In addition, he was a commissioner of Verkade's Factories N.V. in Zaandam, and of Zwaardemakers Handel & amp; Industry N.V. in Zaandam.
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