Jacob Kalff

Jacob Kalff
Kalff in 1933
Minister of Water Management
In office
26 May 1933 – 13 January 1935
Prime MinisterHendrikus Colijn
Preceded byPaul Reymer
Succeeded byHendrikus Colijn
Personal details
Born
Jacob Adriaan Kalff

(1869-04-27)27 April 1869
Zwolle, the Netherlands
Died13 January 1935(1935-01-13) (aged 65)
Wassenaar, the Netherlands
Political partyLiberal State Party
Alma materPolytechnic School
OccupationPolitician, businessperson

Jacob Adriaan Kalff (27 April 1869 – 13 January 1935) was a Dutch businessperson and politician. He was a member of the Liberal State Party. He was director of the Nederlandse Spoorwegen and served as Minister of Transport and Water Management.

Biography

Personal life

Kalff was the son of Jan Kalff [nl] (1931–1913), engineering officer and chief engineer at the railways, and Maria Judith Catharina van Hasselt. He married on 12 May 1898 to Johanna Elisabeth Hillegonda Adriana Wichers Hoeth. They had three sons and one daughter. Kallf died from a flu with pneumonia on 13 January 1935, at the age of 65.[1]

Career

After studying at the Polytechnic School in Delft he worked at the Hollandsche IJzeren Spoorweg-Maatschappij. Kalff committed himself to the unification of the various railway organizations and became director of Rail transport companies and director of the newly formed Nederlandse Spoorwegen.[1]

Kalff served as Minister of Transport and Water Management from May 1933 until his death in 1935.[1][2][3]

In the cover-up report about the responsibility of the 1934 KLM Douglas DC-2 crash published nearly 50 years after the crash, stated that next to the KLM, Kalff was responsible for the crash. Kalff was blamed he had given out a certificate of airworthiness for the Uiver [nl] aircraft with fewer demands than desired due to the "major interests of KLM" and he should not have issued a passenger permit. The six demands requested by the Kalff in return for giving out the certificate were not implemented by KLM.[4]

References

  1. ^ a b c "KALFF, Jacob Adriaan (1869–1935)" (in Dutch). Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences. Retrieved 19 September 2023.
  2. ^ "Ir. J.A. Kalff". parlement.com (in Dutch). Retrieved 19 September 2023.
  3. ^ Ginkel, Rob van (2009). Braving Troubled Waters: Sea Change in a Dutch Fishing Community. Amsterdam University Press. ISBN 978-90-8964-087-1.
  4. ^ "Geheim rapport over ramp met PH-AJU | Uiver vloog de dood tegemoet". Het Vrije Volk (in Dutch). 26 January 1984. p. 7 – via Delpher.
Political offices
Preceded by Minister of Water Management
1933–1935 		Succeeded by