Draft:Jacobus Thijmen Kort

Jacobus “Jacob” Thijmen Kort sometimes written as Jacobus Thyme Kort (21 August 1886 – 20 December 1934) was a Dutch businessperson on Surabaya, the Dutch East Indies. He was killed in the 1934 KLM Douglas DC-2 crash.

Biography
Jacobus Thijmen Kort was born in Leiden on 21 August 1886 and lived there during his childhood. His mother was Anna Hartgerink and his father Jacobus Christiaan Kort who was a known manufacturer and shopkeeper in Leiden.

Kort started his working career at Royal Rotterdam Lloyd where he rose to the rank as first navigator. Later he started working at Ruhaak for the shipping department and later stevedoring company Tesla. In the meantime he had bought interests in the roof tile factory “Karangpilang”. Later he bought the complete company together with companion Vlinkervleugel. In 1920 he moved to Surabaya, the Dutch East Indies as becoming director of the factory. He was able to flourish the company. They also operated “Marmoyo”, a business in lime and stone trade. He also had other business interests, including: land, construction companies and was commissioner of newspaper Soerabaijasch Handelsblad. As a person with an described idealistic personality he built for the less wealthy population workers' houses on Surabaya.

After having liquidated his businesses, he moved back to the Netherlands where he started living in Oegstgeest. There he continued with buildings workers' houses. This large complex became the “Indische buurt” (Dutch East Indies neighborhood). He also built houses in Leiden.

In December he went for business to the Dutch East Indies named as tax procedures and appeals by plane with an extra post flight of the Uiver airplane. After the fourth stopover in Cairo, the airplane crashed in the desert in Iraq, 16 kilometres south of Rutbah Wells and burned out. All three passengers and four crew members were killed.

Kort was married and had made many trips with his wife. They had a daughter and son, who were at the time of his death 19 years old and 13 years old.