Career
Eduard van Meeuwen, son of jhr. Lodewijk Cornelis Josephus Andreas van Meeuwen and scion of the catholic noble family Van Meeuwen (titled as a jonkheer), studied law at the university of Leiden and was a lawyer in "s-Hertogenbosch. Between 1930 and 1944 he was a judge and vice-president of the Court and Hoge Raad der Nederlanden.