Tengku Mansur

Tengku Mansur or Tengku Mansoer (17 January 1897 - 6 October 1953) was the Wali Negara of East Sumatra, as part of the United States of Indonesia. He was also a founding figure and Chairman of Jong Sumatranen Bond (1917-1919).

Biography
Tengku Mansur was born in Tanjungbalai, Sultanate of Asahan, 17 January 1897. He was the son of Tengku Muhammad Adil (Tengku Babul) and Raden Ayu Sariah (originally from Cianjur). Tengku Muhammad Adil and his brothers were known to be very vigorous in opposing and fighting the Dutch. Until in 1859 Tengku Muhammad Adil was banished by the Dutch to Buitenzorg (Bogor) to stop his resistance. His father married four wives and had 12 children.

Mansur was part of a noble family, as Sultan Saibon (Sultan of Asahan) was his nephew.

Mansur started his higher education at the Inlandsch Artsen School (STOVIA) in Batavia in 1911. Mansur is noted as the only student with the title Tengku at that time. In the same class as Mansur (first year) was Abdoel Moenir Nasution. Their classmate in second year (entered 1910) was Ma'moer Al Rasjid Nasution. In third year (entered 1909) were Sjoeib Paroehoeman Harahap and Soeleman Hasiboean.

He began to organise and joined nationalist youths and they founded the Jong Sumatranen Bond organisation of which he was elected chairman (1917). He continued his studies at Leiden University in the Netherlands.

While studying in Leiden, he married a Dutch woman named Amalia Gezina Wempe (1893-1967). His wife later changed her name to Siti Akmal.

From that marriage, Mansur was blessed with a pair of children. The first child was a daughter named Tengku Sariah who was born in Leiden, 14 January 1925 and died in Medan, 15 April 1994. The second son, Tengkoe Dr Adil Mansoer, was born in Leiden, 24 April 1927 and died in The Hague, 30 November 1979.

After obtaining his medical degree in the Netherlands, Tengku Mansur worked as a surgeon in Medan. In November 1947, he was appointed Wali Negara of East Sumatra.

Tengku Mansur died in Medan on 6 October 1953.

Awards
His name is immortalised as a street name in Medan and the name of a public hospital in Tanjungbalai.