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Memory of Hans van Wijngaarden
Hans
(Johannes Dirk) van Wijngaarden was born on June 30, 1933 in Bevervijk.
From his youth on he stood for humanisme, he denied to follow the call
for military service on the principle “do not kill” . By court his
military service duty was substituted for work in a hospital in the department
roentgenology.
After completion of his alternative military service term, he went to Philips
and started to work in the application laboratory for electron microscopy. Here
he rendered regularly technical support “in the field” to the sales managers of
the department S&I Export, particularly in the countries of East-Europe especially
the USSR.
Despite the less comfortable working circumstances in those countries he liked
this type of operation. After some time he joint the S&I Export
department as full member and became area manager analytical equipment USSR
which position he maintained till he left Philips.
For his work Hans visited in the USSR Moscow, Kiev, Tbilisi and many
cities more.
Ханс ван Вейнгаарден
30.06.1933 - 31.12.2010
With the delivery of electron microscopes to the
institutes of the Academy
of Medical Sciences
of the USSR he was introduced to the
scientist Valeria Anders. This encounter proved to be
significant for both of them. In April 1990 they married.
After arriving in Holland,
Valeria started to do business with Russia
and together with
Hans they
created the Co.Europack which actively worked with Moscow,
Petersburg
and Kiev
during the period of perestroika.
Being based in Geldrop, Hans and Valeria travelled on
business throughout the world from Sydney
to Singapore,
from Norway
to Dubai.
They celebrated holidays in trips with their caravan “Caravaler” in the
European countries.
Hans and
Valeria had open house, there came many friends and there
were encounters with interesting people as ex-champion Kuperman, the composer
Molchanova, piano-player Naimark, the
artist Sacha Kosin, musicians, journalists, writers and poets.
The last 5 years Hans van Wijngaarden was editor and sponsor
in the project of literary club “Island
Anders” to promote russian writers and poets. Hans & Valeria published 7 books in the Russian language and
they were occupied of translation of some stories into English and French.
Everyone who had the luck to be associate with Hans knows him as a warm
person, calm, benevolent and hospitable.
He was an interesting man, vegetarian
and besides Dutch he managed 3 other languages. It is regretfull that he only
left a few articles on our webside www.anderval.nl.
Hans passed away on 31-12-2010 due to a short uncurable illness of heart (amyloidosis).Few hours before the start of 2011 his heart stopped.
Bright memories of Hans will forever live in our hearts.
