Willem Huyssen van Kattendijke
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Willem Johan Cornelis Huijssen van Kattendijke
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| Born | 22 January 1816 The Hague, Netherlands |
| Died | Script error: The function "death_date_and_age" does not exist. The Hague, Netherlands |
| Allegiance |  Netherlands |
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 Royal Netherlands Navy |
| Years of service | 1839–1866 |
| Rank | Commander |
| Other work | Minister of the Navy, Foreign Minister |
Willem Johan Cornelis, Ridder Huijssen van Kattendijke (22 January 1816 – 6 February 1866) was a career officer of the Royal Dutch Navy and a politician. As an officer, he reached the rank of Commander. He was Dutch Naval Minister from 1861 to 1866, and interim Dutch Foreign Minister in 1864.
Biography
van Kattendijke was born in Princenhage, Netherlands, as the son of Jan Willem Huyssen van Kattendijke, foreign minister of the Netherlands from 1841 to 1843. He entered the Royal Dutch Navy, becoming a midshipman in 1831, and attended the KIM (Royal Naval Institute) in Medemblik from 1831 to 1839. He became a lieutenant 2nd class in 1839 and served on various vessels until 1842. From 1842 to 1846, he was adjutant to the Director-General of the Navy, and aide to the Minister of the Navy from 1846 to 1849, and as an aide to King William III of the Netherlands from 1846 to 1851. He was promoted to lieutenant-commander 1st class in January 1851.
In 1859, van Kattendijke replaced Pels Rijcken as commandant of the Nagasaki Naval Training Center, teaching the principles of a modern naval science (navigation, cannonry, ship-handling) to samurai including Katsu Kaishu. He arrived as captain of the Kanrin Maru, a steam warship that had been purchased by the ruling Tokugawa shogunate of Japan.[1]
He was promoted to commander on May 1, 1858. On the closure of Nagasaki Naval Training Center in 1859, he returned to the Netherlands. From 14 March 1861 until 6 February 1866 he was Navy Minister for the Netherlands, first in the cabinet of Jacob van Zuylen van Nijevelt and then in the second cabinet of Prime Minister Johan Rudolph Thorbecke. In the latter he also served as interim Foreign Minister from 2 January 1864 to 15 March 1864. He died in The Hague as Navy Minister at the age of 50.
Honors and decorations
- Commander of the Order of the Netherlands Lion
References
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Notes
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Missions to Japan
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FRANCE |
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| French military mission to Japan (1867–68) French military mission to Japan (1872–80) French military mission to Japan (1884–89) French military mission to Japan (1918–19) |
Tracey Mission (1867–68) Douglas Mission (1873–75) Sempill Mission (1922–23) |
Meckel Mission (1885–90) |
Pels Rijcken (1855–57) Kattendijke (1857–59) Schermbeck (1883–86) |
Pompeo Grillo (1884–88) Quaratezi (1889–90) |
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See Also
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| Preceded by | Minister of the Navy 1861-1866 |
Succeeded by Johan Wilhelm Blanken (interim) |
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- 1816 births
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- Royal Netherlands Navy officers
- Dutch nobility
- Ministers of Foreign Affairs of the Netherlands
- Ministers of the Navy of the Netherlands
- Independent politicians in the Netherlands
- Military personnel from The Hague
- Commanders of the Order of the Netherlands Lion
- Dutch expatriates in Japan
- Politicians from The Hague
