Background
Heineken was born on 4 November 1923 in Amsterdam in the Netherlands. He was the grandson of Gerard Adriaan Heineken, who was the founder of the brewery Heineken.
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Alfred Henry Heineken
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Alfred Henry Henry Heineken
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Student, Kennemer Lyceum. Doctor (honorary), University Rochester, 1983.
Career
He served as Chairman of the Board of directors and Chief Executive Officer from 1971 until 1989. After his retirement as chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Heineken continued to sit on the board of directors until his death and served as chairman of the Supervisory board from 1989 till 1995. At the time of his death, Heineken was one of the richest people in the Netherlands, with a Netto worth of 9.5 billion guilders.
He entered the service of the Heineken company – which by then was no longer owned by the family – on 1 June 1941 and bought back stock several years later, to ensure the family controlled the company again.
He created the Heineken Holding that owned 50.005% of Heineken International. He personally held a majority stake in Heineken Holding.
By the time of his resignation as chairman of the board in 1989 he had transformed Heineken from a brand that was known chiefly in the Netherlands to a brand that is currently famous worldwide. Kidnapping Freddy Heineken and his driver Ab Doderer were kidnapped in 1983 and released on a ransom of 35 million Dutch guilders (about 16 million Euros).
The kidnappers Cor van Hout, Willem Holleeder, January Boelaard, Frans Meijer, and Martin Erkamps, were eventually caught and served prison terms.
Before being extradited, Van Hout and Holleeder stayed for more than three years in France, first on the run, then in prison, and then, awaiting a change of the extradition treaty, under house arrest, and finally in prison again. Meijer escaped and lived in Paraguay for years, until he was discovered by Peter R. de Vries and imprisoned there. In 2003, Meijer halted resisting his extradition to the Netherlands, and was transferred to a Dutch prison to serve the last part of his term.
2015 film Kidnapping Mr.
Heineken is based on this incident. Personal Heineken married Lucille Cummins, an American from a Kentucky family of bourbon whiskey distillers.
Heineken died unexpectedly from pneumonia on 3 January 2002 at the age of seventy-eight in his home in Noordwijk. Heineken struggled for some time with deteriorating health, in 1999 he suffered a mild stroke but recovered.
Shortly before his death he broke his arm in a fall.
Heineken was buried at the General Cemetery in Noordwijk. Heineken"s daughter, Charlene de Carvalho-Heineken, inherited his fortune. A film of the kidnapping De Heineken ontvoering, with Rutger Hauer playing Freddy Heineken, was released in October 2011.
A second film, Kidnapping Mr.
Heineken, based on De Vries" book about the kidnapping, was produced by Informant Media in 2013 based on the scenario written by William Brookfield. In this film Heineken is played by Sir Anthony Hopkins with the kidnappers played by Jim Sturgess, Sam Worthington, Ryan Kwanten, Mark van Eeuwen and Thomas Cocquerel.
Achievements
Membership
Supervisory Board Heineken North.V. (brewing) 1951, delegation member 1958, member Board of Manager Directors 1964, Viee-. Supervisory" Board General Bank of the Netherlands North.V.
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Married Martha Lucille Cummins in 1948.
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Political Party
People"s Party for Freedom and Democracy
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1983