biography
| name: |
Cremer, Jacob Theodoor
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pronunciation:
[kraymer]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1847–1923)
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| biography:
| Dutch industrialist, born in Zwolle, NC Netherlands. A liberal politician, in 1870 he was appointed director of the Deli Company and founded Deli Planters Association. In 1876 he published a brochure on native labour which caused the 1880 Coolie Order to be issued, making refusal to work or desertion from plantations a criminal act. As minister for colonial affairs from 1897, his 1899 Mining Act promoted transport and petroleum interests in the Netherlands East Indies. He was appointed president of the Nederlandse Handelsmaatschappij (Netherlands Trading Company, 1907–12) and ambassador in Washington (1918–20). |
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