Herman Adriaan van Karnebeek (21 August 1874 – 29 March 1942) was a Dutch politician. He served as

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between 1918 and 1927 and, in that capacity, as President of the Assembly of the League of Nations from 1921 until 1922.

Biography

His father was Abraham van Karnebeek (1836-1925), a conservative liberal politician, who also served as Minister of Foreign Affairs, from 1885 to 1888. Herman Adriaan van Karnebeek studied

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at the

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. A conservative liberal like his father, he served as

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(1911-1918) before the staunchly pro-German Van Karnebeek became Minister of Foreign Affairs on 9 September 1918 in the first cabinet of jhr.

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. He continued serving as Foreign Minister in the first cabinet of dr. Hendrik Colijn. He eventually resigned when his concept treaty with

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was rejected by a parliamentary majority on 1 April 1927. From 1936 until his death in 1942, he served as chairman of the Carnegie Foundation. He died on 29 March 1942, aged 67, in

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Private life

Van Karnebeek was married to Baroness Adriana J.C. van Wassenaar van Rosande. One of his four sons, jhr. Maurits Pieter Marie van Karnebeek (1908-1985), was the mayor of

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from 1940 to 1944. In 1923 he bought the estate '' De Eese''. As of 2013, the estate is still the property of the Van Karnebeek family. From 1889 onwards, he was a cricket-player for The Hague cricket club ''HCC''.

Honours

,1922. Grand Cross * 1925: Grand Cordon Order of Leopold (Belgium), Order of Leopold. *

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, I degree

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1874 births 1942 deaths Dutch nobility Jonkheers of the Netherlands Ministers of Foreign Affairs of the Netherlands Presidents of the Assembly of the League of Nations Mayors of The Hague Commanders of the Order of the Netherlands Lion Recipients of the Order of St. Sava Independent politicians in the Netherlands {{Netherlands-mayor-stub