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'''Geldolph Adriaan "Dolf" Kessler''' ([[Batavia]] |
'''Geldolph Adriaan "Dolf" Kessler''' ([[Batavia]] ??? – [[Velsen]]???) was a [[Netherlands|Dutch]] [[association football|football]] player. Kessler - along with brother [[Boeli Kessler|Boeli]] and cousins [[Tonny Kessler|Tonny]] and [[Dé Kessler|Dé]] - played club football for amateur side [[HVV Den Haag]]. Kessler also won three caps for the [[Netherlands national football team|Dutch national side]] between 1905 and 1906. |
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Kessler was born in a well-to-do family from [[The Hague]]. His father [[Jean Baptise August Kessler]] (1853-1900) was the first director of the Koninklijke Maatschappij tot exploitatie van Petroleumbronnen in Nederlandsch-Indië (K.N.M.E.P.) (<i>Royal Dutch Society for the exploitation of Petroleumsources in the Dutch East-Indies</i>), which would eventually turn into the Koninklijke Nederlandse Petroleum Maatschappij (<i>Royal Dutch Petroleum Company</i>), now named [[Royal Dutch Shell]]. |
Kessler was born in a well-to-do family from [[The Hague]]. His father [[Jean Baptise August Kessler]] (1853-1900) was the first director of the Koninklijke Maatschappij tot exploitatie van Petroleumbronnen in Nederlandsch-Indië (K.N.M.E.P.) (<i>Royal Dutch Society for the exploitation of Petroleumsources in the Dutch East-Indies</i>), which would eventually turn into the Koninklijke Nederlandse Petroleum Maatschappij (<i>Royal Dutch Petroleum Company</i>), now named [[Royal Dutch Shell]]. |
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Geldolph Adriaan "Dolf" Kessler (Batavia ??? – Velsen???) was a Dutch football player. Kessler - along with brother Boeli and cousins Tonny and Dé - played club football for amateur side HVV Den Haag. Kessler also won three caps for the Dutch national side between 1905 and 1906.
Kessler was born in a well-to-do family from The Hague. His father Jean Baptise August Kessler (1853-1900) was the first director of the Koninklijke Maatschappij tot exploitatie van Petroleumbronnen in Nederlandsch-Indië (K.N.M.E.P.) (Royal Dutch Society for the exploitation of Petroleumsources in the Dutch East-Indies), which would eventually turn into the Koninklijke Nederlandse Petroleum Maatschappij (Royal Dutch Petroleum Company), now named Royal Dutch Shell.
Dolf made his debut as a footballplayer at seventeen years of age, at the Hague football club HVV. At first he stood leftback, later he was a right winger. At HVV he became national champion four times between 1901 and 1905. On April 30 1905 he was captain during the first official interland of the Dutch national team. They beat Belgium with a 4-1 score. The second interland and first home match also saw Kessler leading the team. For his third and last interland in 1906 Dolf had passed the captaincy on to Kees Bekker. Later that year Kessler dislocated his knee, ending his career in football.
In 1907 Kessler graduated from the Technische Hogeschool Delft (Technical College of Delft), as a mechanical engineer. He got a job as secretary for Henri Deterding, who had succeeded Dolf's father as the director of the Royal Dutch Petroleum Company. He worked for the company until 1916, when he left to look for a different job. In 1918 he joined the committee for the funding of the Hoogovens (Dutch Blast Furnaces). In 1920 he became economical director and from 1924 on he was also the director-general. He would remain so until his death in 1945, with a short break during the Second World War, when the Germans kept him hostage in camp Beekvliet in Sint-Michielsgestel.
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