Hendrik Adriaan van Beuningen | |
Birth Date: | 18 June 1841 |
Birth Place: | Rossum, Netherlands |
Death Place: | Utrecht, Netherlands |
Hendrik Adriaan (Hein) van Beuningen (18 June 1841, Rossum – 7 February 1908, Utrecht) was a Dutch businessman and politician.
Van Beuningen was the son of Willem van Beuningen, a Protestant pastor and Adriana Maria Boonen.[1] In 1858 he started working as a clerk at the Dutch Rhenish Railway. However he was promoted within a few years and soon became their freight transport manager.[2]
Van Beuningen became politically active in 1878; first as a municipal councillor in Utrecht, and later as a member of the States of Utrecht. He continued to play these two roles until his death in 1908.