Hendrik van der Bijl

Dr Hendrik Johannes van der Bijl FRS^[1] (1887–1948) was a South African electrical engineer and industrialist.^[2] He was the founding Chairman of the Electricity Supply Commission (ESCOM, later to become Eskom) in 1923. In 1927, he was the President of the South African Institute of Electrical Engineers (SAIEE).^[3] Dr van der Bijl established the Iron and Steel Corporation of South Africa (ISCOR), and was its Chairman for many years. The city of Vanderbijlpark, where ISCOR's major steel works was built and still operates, is named after him.

References

^ Schonland, B. F. J. (1950). "Hendrik Johannes van der Bijl. 1887-1948". Obituary Notices of Fellows of the Royal Society 7 (19): 26. doi:10.1098/rsbm.1950.0003. edit
^ Rosenthal, E: Southern African Dictionary of National Biography, Frederick Warne and Co. Ltd, 1966, pp. 389-390, Library of Congress Catalog Card Number 66-15690
^ Crouch, M: The First Ten Decades, Chris van Rensburg Publications, 2009, p. 32, ISBN 0-86846-110-5

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Preceded by Adriaan Louw	Chancellor of the University of Pretoria 1934– 1948	Succeeded by Charles Theodore Te Water

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Name	Bijl, Hendrik Van Der
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Date of death	1948
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