Johan Egbert Frederik "Frits" de Kok (6 January 1882, in

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– 28 October 1940, in

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) was the General Managing Director of the

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from 1937 to October 1940. This was the most senior executive position in the company and due to the structure of

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at the time was, with the Chairman of the

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Company, the joint senior executive position in the

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