Otto Ferdinand Muller von Czernicki, Jr (March 13, 1909 in

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– 1998) was a Dutch

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player who competed in the

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. He had a professional career as agricultural engineer, was married to Lilie van Thiel (born 1913), and was the son of Otto Ferdinand Muller von Czernicki, Sr and Anna Catharina Cramer. He was a squad member of the Dutch field hockey team, which won the silver medal in the 1928 Olympics. He was a reserve player and did not play a single match. He played from 1926 to 1930 as back in the hockey teams of

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, H.H.C (1930), the Netherlands National Student Hockey Team, and the

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. He also played lawn tennis and rowed at WSR Argo in 1936. After graduating in 1937 from

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with a degree in tropical agriculture, Muller von Czernicki eventually became the CEO of Rubber Cultuur Maatschappij "Amsterdam" (RCMA), now ''Amsterdam Commodities'' (Acomo), a company with thousands of employees that, until 1957 when

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nationalized all plantations, primarily managed rubber and

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plantations.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Muller von Czernicki, Otto Ferdinand 1909 births 1998 deaths Dutch male field hockey players Olympic field hockey players for the Netherlands Field hockey players at the 1928 Summer Olympics Olympic silver medalists for the Netherlands 20th-century Dutch businesspeople Sportspeople from East Java Wageningen University and Research alumni Medalists at the 1928 Summer Olympics