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Menu Home Upfront Now Up Books Towns Structures People Firms Lexicon VAN KRETSCHMAR VAN VEEN, Jacob Adriaan Born: 1857 09 14 Died: 1931 08 17 Engineer Born in Ellecom, Gelderland in the Netherlands. Trained as a civil engineer in Delft. After a period of service in the Hollandsche IJzeren Spoorweg Maatschappij he served as administrator of the NZASM from 1895-1897. From June of 1899 he succeeded the engineer GAA MIDDELBERG as director of the NZASM. He committed the NZASM to the war effort of the ZAR in 1899, was arrested and interrogated when the British took control and deported to the Netherlands in October of 1900. He died in Hilversum, North-Holland. His son, Constantijn Leopold Carel VAN KRETSCHMAR VAN VEEN returned for a period to South Africa as a Harbours Engineer. Books by VAN KRETSCHMAR VAN VEEN Van Kretschmar van Veen, JA. 1901. Nederlandsche Zuid-Afrikaansche Spoorweg-Maatschappij: rapporten van den directeur J.A. van Kretschmar van Veen aan den Raad van Commissarissen betreffende de verrichtingen der Maatschappij in Zuid-Afrika tydens den oorlog, 1899-1900.. Pretoria?: NZASM? Books citing VAN KRETSCHMAR VAN VEEN Anonymous [Nederlandsche Zuid-Afrikaanse Spoorwegmaatschappij]. [c.1909]. In Memoriam N.Z.A.S.M. Amsterdam: JH De Bussy. pp 13, 84, 85, 101, 128, 142, 155, 156, 159 De Jong, RC, Van der Waal, GM. 1988. NZASM 100 : 1887-1899, the buildings, steam engines and structures of the Netherlands South African Railway Company. Pretoria: C. Van Rensburg Publications on behalf of the Human Sciences Research Council. pp 62, 135, 235, 236 HSRC. 1977. Dictionary of South African Biography Volume III. Pretoria: Tafelberg for The Human Sciences Research Council. pp 810-811 Ploeger, Jan. 1994. Nederlanders in die Transvaal 1850-1950. Pretoria: Van Schaik. pp 134 Potgieter, DJ (Editor-in-chief). 1975. Standard Encyclopaedia of South Africa [SESA] Volume 11 Tur-Zwe. Cape Town: Nasou. pp 152 Van Winter, PJ. 1938. Onder Krugers Hollanders : Geschiedenis van de Nederlandsche Zuid-Afrikaansche Spoorweg-Maatschappij. Tweede Deel. Amsterdam: JH de Bussy. pp 193, 261, 279 v, 292, 319, 316 v, 350.