Portrait of Carel Herman Aart van der Wijck (1900) Lombok Governor General of the Dutch East Indies Upon arrival, he first appointed a new KPM agent for the Dutch East Indies, local KPM harbor masters, and implemented austerity measures at the KPM office in Batavia before being sworn in as Governor General on October 17 that year. At his own specific request he left while still employed by the KPM for the Dutch East Indies. On June 15, 1893, he was appointed on the recommendation of the Minister of Colonies Van Dedem to succeed Pijnacker Hordijk as Governor General of the Dutch East Indies. Back in The Netherlands he became a commissioner of the Royal Paketvaart Maatschappij (KPM). He received - at his request - an honorable discharge from Dutch East Indies service in 1891. Van der Wijck was appointed as a member of the Council of India in 1888 and was appointed vice president of this council the following year. A note from him dated 29 October 1887 on this issue was later published in the Journal of the Royal Institute of Engineers (1890-1891). In 1884 his appointment as a resident of Surabaya followed, where he was involved in, among other things, plans to improve the water management of the Solo Valley. He was appointed resident of Tegal in 1880 in this region, where the population was burdened by the burden of the sugar industry, with the administrative constraints attached to it until 1890, he was able to settle the conflicts about the use of irrigation water, which was indispensable for both the manufacturers (water power for the machines) and the population. Van der Wijck obtained a acknowledgement from the government for his decisive action to curb the disturbances in 1878 on the private country of Tjitrap (at the home of inspector Captain Von Balluseck). In 1873 he was appointed as an assistant resident in Surakarta and in 1876 he transferred in the same rank to Buitenzorg. In 1868 he entered the ranks of the actual Interior Administration by his appointment as secretary of the Batavia residence. In 1866 he was transferred in his position as main committee to the newly established Department of Internal Administration. He returned to the Dutch East Indies, to Batavia, where he was appointed as second commission in 1864 to the General Secretariat and in 1865 promoted to first commission. He spent the first part of his childhood in the Dutch East Indies and was sent to the Netherlands for further education, where he studied at the gymnasium in Zutphen and then the Royal Academy for the training of Indian civil servants in the Dutch East Indies. Herman Constantijn van der Wijck (1815-1889), member of the Council of the Indies, and Marianne Susanna Lucia de Kock van Leeuwen (1821-1912). Van der Wijck was born a descendant of the influential Van der Wijck family.
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