Jan van Panthaleon van Eck
Jan Carel van Panthaleon van Eck , originally Jan Carel van Eck (born April 8, 1880 in Warnsveld , † February 16, 1965 in Santa Barbara , California ) was a Dutch manager. In the 1930s he was Group Managing Director at the Royal Dutch Shell Group .
Life and activity
After attending school, van Eck studied law at the University of Utrecht from 1899 . He completed his studies in 1903 with a doctorate as Dr. jur. from. This was followed by service in the military and work for a bank.
In 1908, van Eck took a job as secretary to Henry Deterding , President of the Royal Dutch Shell Oil Company in The Hague, after doing temporary assistance such as processing his boss's correspondence and writing down dictations. In 1909 he was sent to London to work in the legal department of Shell Oil
In 1911 van Eck was sent to America to examine the Shell Group's options for entering the oil business there. In Montreal, he established the subsidiary later known as Shell Canada Limited. In 1912, the American Gasoline Company was founded in Seattle, the predecessor of the Shell Oil Company, which van Eck led in the following years. Until 1923 he headed various Shell companies on the American west coast. After the further expansion of Royal Dutch Shell Oil in the United States and the consolidation of the new group as Shell Union Oil Company in 1920, van Eck became a member of the supervisory board. In 1922 he was appointed vice president of the group. In 1923 he had to move to New York to take over the management of Shell Union Oil Corporation - the then holding company for business interests in the United States. He remained in this post for more than thirteen years.
As the leading manager of one of the most important companies located in Great Britain, van Eck was classified by the National Socialist police as an important target after his emigration: In the spring of 1940, the Reich Security Main Office in Berlin placed him on the special wanted list GB , a directory of people who would be killed in the event of a successful invasion and occupation of the British Isles by the Wehrmacht should be located and arrested by the occupying troops following special SS commandos with special priority.
In 1936 van Eck was appointed one of the managing directors of the parent company - the Royal Dutch-Shell group of companies - in London: he held this position from January 1, 1937 to December 31, 1946. During this time he traveled extensively to monitor the business interests of the Shell Group, which took him to the European continent and East Asia (until the outbreak of war in 1939).
After his retirement, van Eck lived in Santa Barbara.
family
Van Eck was married to Agnes Tillman from San Francisco since 1914. The marriage resulted in three sons and two daughters, including the son John van Eck (1915-2014), the founder of Van Eck Global, a company for the management of funds in New York City, and also the sons Fred, Bart and their daughters Agnes and Henriette.
literature
- How is that? , 1948, vol. 5, p. 136.
- California Oil World , Vol. 58, p. 252.
Web links
- Brief biography of Panthaleon on the website of the Royal Dutch Shell Group
- Biography on the New Netherland Institute website
Individual evidence
- ^ Entry on Panthaleon van Eck on the special wanted list GB, (reproduced on the website of the Imperial War Museum in London) .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Eck, Jan van Panthaleon van |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Eck, Jan Carel van Panthaleon van (full name); Eck, Jan Carel van |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Dutch manager |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 8, 1880 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Warnsveld |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 16, 1965 |
| Place of death | Santa Barbara , California |