Wolter Broese van Groenou

Wolter Broese van Groenou (2 January 1842 – 27 October 1924) was a Dutch businessman who was the owner of the Tandjong Tirto sugar plantation near Djokjakarta.

Early and personal life Wolter Broese van Groenou was born in Apeldoorn on 2 January 1842, as the son of Arend Joachims Broese van Groenou and Wilhelmina Stefania Albertina Jalink.

On 14 May 1874, the 32-year-old Broese van Groenou married Jeanetta Emilia Wieseman (1854–1931) at Yogyakarta, Dutch East Indies, Dolf Broese van Groenou, who participated in the architecture event in the art competition at the 1924 Summer Olympics, and Wolter Broese van Groenou, who together with Dolf played football for HVV Den Haag at the turn of the century, with both starting in the 1899 KNVB Cup final.

Club career Broese van Groenou attended the Royal Military Academy in Breda, after which he was sent to the Dutch East Indies, becoming a soldier in the Royal Dutch East Indies Army until 1878. While there, he married Jeanetta, whose father, Frederik (1830–1907), was a large planter in Yogyakarta, and he went on to take over his father-in-law's sugar plantation and sugar factory Tandjong Tirto, thus amassing a fortune.

Death Broese van Groenou died in Den Haag on 27 October 1924, at the age of 82.