Willem Albert Scholten

Willem Albert Scholten
Born(1819-10-06)6 October 1819
Loenen, Netherlands
Died1 May 1892(1892-05-01) (aged 72)
Groningen, Netherlands
Occupation(s)industrialist, landowner
Known forEureka, Scholtenhuis, Holland America Line
SpouseKlaassien Sluis

Willem Albert Scholten (6 October 1819 – 1 May 1895) was a Dutch industrialist and landowner. He established the potato starch factory Eureka in Foxhol which laid the foundation of an industrial empire. Scholten would own 24 factories in Europe.[1] He owned large plots of land in Drenthe for peat extraction, and was one of the founders of what would become the Holland America Line. In Groningen, Scholten built the Scholtenhuis, a large residential house on the Grote Markt [nl], the main square, opposite the City Hall.

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