Jacob Emil van Hoogstraten, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Jacob Emil van Hoogstraten

public servant in colonial Indonesia

Date of Birth: 26-Mar-1898

Place of Birth: Eerbeek, Gelderland, Netherlands

Date of Death: 17-Mar-1991

Profession: civil servant

Nationality: Kingdom of the Netherlands

Zodiac Sign: Aries

Jacob Emil "Dick" van Hoogstraten (1898–1991) was a Dutch public servant in the Dutch East Indies from 1922 to 1949, functioning as Director of the Department of Economic Affairs from 1942 to 1949 .
He was one of the architects of economic recovery from the economic crisis of the early-1930s and the economic set-back of the Japanese occupation during the early-1940s in Indonesia.