Antonius Johannes Jurgens, also known as Anton Jurgens (8 February 1867 – 12 March 1945) was a Dutch businessman. He was born in Oss, the grandson of Joanna Lemmens and of

Antoon Jurgens Antoon Jurgens (1805-1880) was a Dutch merchant and industrialist. He founded a butter company that grew to be one of the largest butter and margarine companies in Europe. His company was instrumental in the formation of Margarine Unie which, in ...

, who founded a butter company in 1867 and, in 1871, the first margarine factory in the world. The Jurgens family had moved from the neighborhood of

Heerlen Heerlen (; li, Heële ) is a city and a municipality in the southeast of the Netherlands. It is the third largest settlement proper in the province of Limburg. Measured as municipality, it is the fourth municipality in the province of Limburg ...

, in the south of the Netherlands and close to the German border, to Oss, where the family company was founded; they were known as the ''moffen'', a derogatory term for Germans. Anton Jurgens became the ''pater familias'' of the company, which would retain its family structure until the fusion with Van den Bergh in 1927.Schrover
/ref> Jurgens succeeded his father in business at the age of 21, and was one of the main European margarine and soap manufacturers in the early twentieth century with Pieter-Eduard Leverd. His whaling monopoly also led Jurgens to be called the "prince of whales". From 1919 to 1921, he also served in the Senate as a member of the

Roman Catholic State Party The Roman Catholic State Party ( nl, Roomsch-Katholieke Staatspartij, RKSP) was a Catholic Christian democratic political party in the Netherlands. The party was founded in 1926 as a continuation of the General League of Roman Catholic Caucuses ...

; he was forced to give up his seat because of the demands of his business. He died in 1945

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, in England, and was buried there and later reinterred in

Poissy Poissy () is a commune in the Yvelines department in the Île-de-France region in north-central France. It is located in the western suburbs of Paris, from the centre of Paris. Inhabitants are called ''Pisciacais'' in French. Poissy is one ...

, in France, beside his wife and his son Henri, who had died in an accident in 1933. Former politician is a family member.

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