Abraham Louis Schneiders

Abraham Louis “Bram” Schneiders (1 October 1925 — 2 July 2020) was a Dutch writer and diplomat. He was ambassador of the Netherlands to Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea, Central African Republic, Gabon, Chad (1979-1982), Zimbabwe (1982-1986); New Zealand, Fiji, Tonga; Samoa (1986-1990) and Tuvalu (1987-1990).

As writer he had pseudonyms Drievoeter and A. van Anders.

Career Schneiders was born in Castricum as son of Louis Abraham Schneiders (1893-1956), who was a medical doctor since 1931 at the GG&GD in Rotterdam, and Anna Margaretha Dorothea Schlüter (1897-1992). He studied Dutch East Indies Jurisprudence at the University of Utrecht and Leiden. He served in the army between 1948 and 1950 in Indonesia during the Indonesian National Revolution.