Herman Adriaan van Karnebeek

In this Dutch name, the surname is Van Karnebeek, not Karnebeek.

Van Karnebeek in 1911

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

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 jhr. 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. From 1936 until his death in 1942, he 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, "The Order of the Falcon".
• 1925: Grand Cordon, Order of Leopold.
• Order of Saint Sava, I degree.