JEF De Kok
Johannes Egbert Frederik de Kok (born January 6, 1882 in Maastricht , † October 28, 1940 in The Hague ) was a Dutch manager. De Kok served from 1936 to 1940 as General Managing Director of the Royal Dutch Shell Group.
Life and activity
After visiting the Royal Military Academy in Breda. He then worked briefly as an infantry officer in the Dutch East Indies, but soon had to return home for health reasons. Instead, he began studying chemistry in Delft , which he graduated with honors in 1908.
In 1908 de Kok joined the Bataafsche Petroleum Maatschappij (Batavian Oil Company), a subsidiary of the Royal Dutch Shell Group, as an engineer. In the following three decades he had a steep career in various companies in the Shell Group
When Henri Deterding , who had determined the fortunes of the Royal Dutch Shell Group since 1900, withdrew from the management of the company and retired in 1936, de Kok succeeded him as General Manager of Shell.
Due to his important position in the international economy, de Kok was targeted by the National Socialist police in the late 1930s: in the spring of 1940, the Reich Main Security Office in Berlin, which mistakenly suspected him to be in Great Britain, put de Kok on the special wanted list GB , a directory of persons In the event of a successful invasion and occupation of the British Isles by the Wehrmacht, special SS commandos that followed the occupation troops should be located and arrested with special priority.
De Kok died in 1940 of a heart condition in the Hague hospital.
literature
- FC gerretson: History of the Royal Duch , Vol. 4, p. 15.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Entry on de Kok on the special wanted list GB (reproduced on the website of the Imperial War Museum in London) .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Kok, JEF De |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Kok, Johannes Egbert Frederik de |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Dutch manager |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 6, 1882 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Maastricht |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 28, 1940 |
| Place of death | The hague |