Gijsbert Karel van Hogendorp

Gijsbert Karel van Hogendorp in front of the Beurs WTC building in Rotterdam.

Gijsbert Karel Graf van Hogendorp (born October 27, 1762 in Rotterdam , † August 5, 1834 in The Hague ) was a Dutch statesman. He came from the Van Hogendorp family ; Dirk van Hogendorp was his older brother.

He was raised in the Prussian cadet house , entered the Prussian military service in 1778 and took part in the Bavarian War of Succession as an ensign . Johann Erich Biester taught him Greek and Latin . After returning to his fatherland, he was employed in the guard of the heir Wilhelm V in 1782 , but later studied law in Leiden , was on the Orange side during the unrest in 1787 and, after the suppression of the same, became a pensioner (city clerk) of Rotterdam , from which post he followed resigned after the conquest of Holland by the French in 1795 to take over a business in Amsterdam.

Through his failed plan to found a colony for the supporters of the House of Orange on the Cape of Good Hope , he lost most of his fortune; on the other hand, in 1813 he contributed significantly to the liberation of Holland from the French occupation by uniting the supporters of the Prince of Orange in The Hague when the allies advanced victoriously . As president of the commission, which was entrusted with drafting the new constitutional charter, he exercised a decisive influence on the other commission members, so that he was the main author of the Dutch constitution. Thereupon he received the department of foreign affairs, became vice-president of the council of state and in 1815 count, but already in 1816 he was dismissed because of illness. As a member of the Second Chamber of the States General, into which he was elected in 1815, he belonged to the opposition to the Minister van Maanen . He resigned his place in the First Chamber because the proceedings were not open to the public. He was Minister of State of the Netherlands from September 20, 1815 to May 22, 1819 , but was relieved of this title because of criticism of Wilhelm I's financial policy . He is one of only six Dutch ministers of state for whom this has been the case.

He died in The Hague on August 5, 1834.

He wrote: "On trade in India" (1801, 2 vols.), "Memoirs on trade in Java" (1804), "Contributions to the state budget of the Kingdom of the Netherlands" (Delft 1818-29, 10 vols .; 2 . Ed., Edited by Thorbecke, Zaltbommel 1854-56, 5 vols.), All in Dutch; "Lettres sur la prospérité publique" (Amsterdam 1830, 2 vols.); "La séparation de la Hollande et de la Belgique" (that .. 1830) and others

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SURNAME	Hogendorp, Gijsbert Karel van
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Hogendorp, Gijsbert Karel Graf van (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Dutch statesman
DATE OF BIRTH	October 27, 1762
PLACE OF BIRTH	Rotterdam
DATE OF DEATH	August 5, 1834
Place of death	The hague