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9 unusual facts about Wassenaar


Bombing of the Bezuidenhout

At the time, the neighbourhood was more densely populated than usual with evacuees from The Hague and Wassenaar; tens of thousands were left homeless and had to be quartered in the Eastern and Central Netherlands.

Gerrit van Iterson

Gerrit van Iterson Jr (Roermond, August 19, 1878 – Wassenaar, January 4, 1972) was a Dutch botanist and professor who developed a mathematical approach to plant growth (phyllotaxis).

Gio Wiederhold

He worked on computations of short-range missile trajectories at NATO's Air Defense Technical Center (SADTC) in Wassenaar near The Hague in 1958.

Herman van Roijen

Jan Herman van Roijen (10 April 1905, Constantinopel – 16 March 1991, Wassenaar) was a Dutch diplomat and politician.

Jacob van Wassenaer Duivenvoorde

In 1615 he bought Zuidwijk from the prince of Ligne, a piece of land near Wassenaar and adopted the name "van Wassenaer".

Jorge Zorreguieta

During the baptism ceremony (in The Hague and Wassenaar), opponents of the former Argentine military regime protested.

Larry Siedentop

After retirement, Siedentop was a Visiting Fellow at the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study in Wassenaar, The Queen Victoria Eugenia Professor at the Complutense University of Madrid, Spain, and a Visiting Fellow in the Philosophy and Public Affairs program at the University of St. Andrews in Scotland.

Princess Marie of the Netherlands

Marie was born at Wassenaar, Netherlands the fourth child and younger daughter of Prince Frederick of the Netherlands (1797–1881) second son of William I of the Netherlands, and his wife, Princess Louise of Prussia (1808–1870), daughter of Frederick William III of Prussia.

William, Prince of Wied

William married on 18 July 1871 in Wassenaar, Princess Marie of the Netherlands (1841–1910), younger daughter of Prince Frederick of the Netherlands (1792–1839) second son of William I of the Netherlands, and his wife, Princess Louise of Prussia (1808–1870), daughter of Frederick William III of Prussia.


Buitenplaats

Though most buitenhuizen have been demolished, examples are still in existence are along the river Vecht, the river Amstel, the Spaarne in Kennemerland, the river Vliet and in Wassenaar.

Ellen Vogel

Born on January 26, 1922 in the The Hague, Netherlands as the second child of publicist Louis Albert Anthing Vogel (1874-1933) and Ellen Buwalda (1890-1985), Her older sister Pauline Berthe Theodore "Tanja" Anthing Vogel (1919-1997) was the owner of a ballet studio in Wassenaar and her younger brother Albert Theodore Leonard Carel Anthing Vogel, Jr. (1924-1982) was also an actor.


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