Herman Adriaan van Karnebeek

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Jonkheer Herman Adriaan van Karnebeek (21 August 1874 – 29 March 1942) was a Dutch politician and diplomat who served as Minister of Foreign Affairs from 1918 until his resignation in 1927. In that capacity, he was President of the Assembly of the League of Nations in 1921 and 1922.^[1]

Biography

A native of The Hague, 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 law at the University of Utrecht. A conservative liberal like his father, he served as mayor of The Hague (1911–1918) before becoming Minister of Foreign Affairs on 9 September 1918 in the first cabinet of Charles Ruijs de Beerenbrouck. A staunch pro-German, he continued to serve as Foreign Minister in the first cabinet of Dr. Hendrik Colijn. He eventually resigned when his concept treaty with Belgium was rejected by a parliamentary majority on 1 April 1927, but was appointed to the honorific title of Minister of State. In 1928, he became Queen's commissioner in South Holland, a position he held until his death in 1942. From 1936 until his death, he also served as chairman of the Carnegie Foundation.

He died on 29 March 1942, aged 67, in The Hague.

Private life

Van Karnebeek was married to Baroness Adriana J.C. van Wassenaar van Rosande. One of his four sons, jonkheer (jhr.) Maurits Pieter Marie van Karnebeek (1908–1985), was mayor of Zwolle from 1940 to 1944.

In 1923 he bought the estate De Eese on the provincial border between Overijssel, Drenthe and Friesland. 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,^[2]
1925: Grand Cordon, Order of Leopold.^[3]
Order of Saint Sava, I degree.^[4]

Notes

^ "Assembly Meeting", Time, 19 September 1927. Retrieved 16 May 2008.
^ "The Order of the Falcon".
^ Royal Decree of 1925/-Mémorial du centenaire de l'Ordre de Léopold. 1832-1932. Bruxelles, J. Rozez, 1933.
^ Acović, Dragomir (2012). Slava i čast: Odlikovanja među Srbima, Srbi među odlikovanjima. Belgrade: Službeni Glasnik. p. 644.

Political offices
Preceded by Emile Claude, Baron Sweerts de Landas Wyborgh	Mayor of The Hague 1911–1918	Succeeded by Jacob Adriaan Nicolaas Patijn
Preceded by John Loudon	Minister of Foreign Affairs 1918–1927	Succeeded by Frans Beelaerts van Blokland
Preceded by Emile Claude, Baron Sweerts de Landas Wyborgh	Queen's commissioner in South Holland 1928–1942	Succeeded by Robert van Genechten
Diplomatic posts
Preceded by Paul Hymans	Presidents of the Assembly of the League of Nations 1921–1922	Succeeded by Agustín Edwards Mac-Clure

Presidents of the Assembly of the League of Nations

Léon Bourgeois (1920)
Paul Hymans (1920–21)
Herman Adriaan van Karnebeek (1921–22)
Agustín Edwards (1922–23)
Cosme de la Torriente y Peraza (1923–24)
Giuseppe Motta (1924–25)
Raoul Dandurand (1925–26)
Afonso Costa (1926)
Momčilo Ninčić (1926–27)
Alberto Guani (1927–28)
Herluf Zahle (1928–29)
José Gustavo Guerrero (1929–30)
Nicolae Titulescu (1930–32)
Paul Hymans (1932–33)
Charles Theodore Te Water (1933–34)
Richard Johannes Sandler (1934)
Francisco Castillo Nájera (1934–35)
Edvard Beneš (1935–36)
Carlos Saavedra Lamas (1936–37)
Tevfik Rüştü Aras (1937)
Aga Khan III (1937–38)
Éamon de Valera (1938–39)
Carl Joachim Hambro (1939–40, 1946)

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Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Buys Gogel Van der Goes van Dirxland Röell Mollerus Van der Heim Van Hogendorp Van Nagell Reinhold Van Reede De Coninck Verstolk van Soelen H. van Zuylen van Nijevelt Huyssen van Kettendijke Schimmelpenninck van der Oye De la Sarraz Van Randwijck Schimmelpenninck Bentinck van Nijenhuis Lightenvelt Van Sonsbeeck Ja. van Zuylen van Nijevelt Van Hall Gevers van Endegeest Van Goltstein Van Hall Ju. van Zuylen van Nijevelt Van der Goes van Dirxland Ja. van Zuylen van Nijevelt Strens Stratenus Van der Maesen de Sombreff Huyssen van Kattendijke Cremers Ju. van Zuylen van Nijevelt Van Mulken Roest van Limburg Van Mulken Gericke van Herwijnen Van der Does de Willebois Van Heeckeren van Kell Van Lynden van Sandenburg Rochussen Van der Does de Willebois Du Tour van Bellinchave Van Karnebeek Hartsen Van Tienhoven Jansen Röell De Beaufort Van Lynden Ellis Van Weede van Berencamp Ellis Van Tets van Goudriaan De Marees van Swinderen Cort van der Linden Loudon Van Karnebeek Beelaerts van Blokland De Graeff Ruijs de Beerenbrouck Colijn Patijn Van Kleffens Van Roijen Van Boetzelaer van Oosterhout Stikker Beyen Luns Schmelzer Van der Stoel Van der Klaauw Van der Stoel Van Agt Van den Broek Kooijmans Van Mierlo Van Aartsen De Hoop Scheffer Bot Verhagen Rosenthal Timmermans Koenders Zijlstra Kaag Blok Kaag De Bruijn Knapen Hoekstra Schreinemacher Slot Veldkamp

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