Eduard Daniel Leopold van Ingen
Eduard Daniel Leopold baron van Ingen was a Dutch colonial administrator on the Gold Coast. He was interim commander from 1832 until his death on 16 March 1833.Biography
Eduard van Ingen was born in Zutphen to baron Antoni Lucas van Ingen, a captain in the Dutch army, and Elisabeth Louise Heckers.
Eduard van Ingen became acting commander of the Dutch Gold Coast after the previous acting commander Jan Tieleman Jacobus Cremer died in office on 1 July 1832.
After Kwadwo Akyampon died on 18 September 1832, Van Ingen sent the military commandant Reinier Klaassen to Kumasi to inform the Asantehene about his death.
Van Ingen himself also died in office on 16 March 1833, reportedly because of alcoholism. He was buried in the Dutch Cemetery of Elmina.
