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Philip and Sylvia Harding Klimanek in Jessfield Park, Shanghai, ca. 1933

Submitted by Charles in Shanghai on Sun, 2022-01-23 15:59

Philip Harding Klimanek (1883-1965) was born in the Czech Republic, at the time his place of birth was part of the Austro-Hungarian empire. In ca. 1905 he started to work for Holland-China Trading Company, in Hong Kong.

In 1939, when Charles Gesner van der Voort arrived in Shanghai to work for the company, he was Charles' superior. In a letter home he wrote: "Played chess with Klimanek in the French Club" [translation Pieter Lommerse, the French Club was Le Cercle Sportif Français, a fashionable place to be in the 1930s and it still exists today]. <Read more ...>

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1933

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Philip Harding Klimanek - Entertainment aboard a ship crossing the Atlantic Ocean, 1935

Submitted by Charles in Shanghai on Sun, 2022-01-23 15:55

Philip Harding Klimanek (1883-1965) was born in the Czech Republic, at the time his place of birth was part of the Austro-Hungarian empire. In ca. 1905 he started to work for Holland-China Trading Company, in Hong Kong.

In 1939, when Charles Gesner van der Voort arrived in Shanghai to work for the company, he was Charles' superior. In a letter home he wrote: "Played chess with Klimanek in the French Club" [translation Pieter Lommerse, the French Club was Le Cercle Sportif Français, a fashionable place to be in the 1930s and it still exists today]. <Read more ...>

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1935

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Harding Klimanek family portrait, Shanghai, ca. 1932

Submitted by Charles in Shanghai on Sun, 2022-01-23 15:45

Philip Harding Klimanek (1883-1965) was born in the Czech Republic, at the time his place of birth was part of the Austro-Hungarian empire. In ca. 1905 he started to work for Holland-China Trading Company, in Hong Kong.

In 1939, when Charles Gesner van der Voort arrived in Shanghai to work for the company, he was Charles' senior manager. In a letter home he wrote: "Played chess with Klimanek in the French Club" [translation Pieter Lommerse, the French Club was Le Cercle Sportif Français, a fashionable place to be in the 1930s and it still exists today]. <Read more ...>

Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos):

1932

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Office staff Holland-China Trading Company, Shanghai 1921

Submitted by Charles in Shanghai on Sun, 2022-01-23 15:42

In 1921, director Willem Kien (front row, centre), left the Shanghai office for the Rotterdam office of Holland-China Trading Company (Holland-China Handelscompagnie, HCHC). For this occasion, a office staff group photo was made. In 1921, the office was in Kiangse Road.

At the time, Charles Gesner van der Voort (1916-1991) was five years old, still playing in the streets of Dordrecht. In December 1938, after an internship at the Rotterdam office, he would sail for Shanghai and arrive in January 1939. <Read more ...>

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1921

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Journey to Arendal, Irish Independent, 1968

Submitted by Charles in Shanghai on Sun, 2022-01-23 15:35

Newspaper article about Reginald Harding-Klimanek ('Reggie') by Dom Wulstan Phillipson,O.S.B., in the Irish Independent, Middle Abbey Street, Dublin, 2 September 1968. <Read more ...>

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1968

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Zoia Harding Klimanek in Japan, ca. 1933

Submitted by Charles in Shanghai on Sun, 2021-04-11 02:44

Zoia Serjevna Kojevnikova and Philip Harding Klimanek married in 1922. Philip Harding Klimanek was Charles Gesner van der Voort's senior colleague at Holland-China Trading Company in Shanghai, when he arrived in 1939.

Many foreign people in Shanghai visited Japan for a holiday, Kobe was relatively nearby.

Courtesy Harding-Klimanek family archives <Read more ...>

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1933

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Philip and Reginald Harding Klimanek in Shanghai, ca. 1931

Submitted by Charles in Shanghai on Sun, 2021-04-11 02:42

Philip Harding Klimanek (1883-1965) was born in the Czech Republic, at the time his place of birth was part of the Austro-Hungarian empire. In ca. 1905 he started to work for Holland-China Trading Company, in Hong Kong.

In 1939, when Charles Gesner van der Voort arrived in Shanghai to work for the company, he was Charles' senior colleague. In a letter home he wrote: "Played chess with Klimanek in the French Club" [translation Pieter Lommerse, the French Club was Le Cercle Sportif Français, a fashionable place to be in the 1930s and it still exists today]. <Read more ...>

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1931

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Zoia and Reginald Harding Klimanek in Japan, ca. 1933

Submitted by Charles in Shanghai on Wed, 2021-03-31 11:59

Philip Harding Klimanek (1883-1965), who worked for Holland-China Trading Company from ca. 1905 in Hong Kong and Shanghai, visited Japan in ca. 1934 with his wife Zoia, son Reginald and daughter Sylvia. <Read more ...>

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1933

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Holland-China Trading Company colleagues, Hong Kong, ca. 1948

Submitted by Charles in Shanghai on Sat, 2021-02-06 15:10

Philip Harding Klimanek (1883-1965) was born in the Czech Republic, at the time his place of birth was part of the Austro-Hungarian empire. In ca. 1905 he started to work for Holland-China Trading Company, in Hong Kong.

In 1939, when Charles Gesner van der Voort arrived in Shanghai to work for the company, he was Charles' superior. In a letter home he wrote: "Played chess with Klimanek in the French Club" [translation Pieter Lommerse, the French Club was Le Cercle Sportif Français, a fashionable place to be in the 1930s and it still exists today]. <Read more ...>

Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos):

1948

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Hilltop kiosk or pavilion, Hong Kong, 1930s

Submitted by Charles in Shanghai on Sun, 2021-01-17 19:55

Charles Gesner van der Voort (1916-1991) worked for Holland-China Trading Company (HCHC) in Shanghai; it also had offices in Hong Kong and Tientsin (Tianjin). One of its first directors, Mr. Willem Kien, worked in China from 1898. After HCHC was founded in 1903, he worked for the company in Hong Kong and Shanghai. In 1921, he left China and worked for the head office in Rotterdam, at Diergaardelaan 36, until 1948, when the company was obtained by Internatio. <Read more ...>

Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos):

1930

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