Rantzau
An unlikely story
Contents:
Job:
Not much to tell here, as I am enjoying my pension
Principal tasks:
None luckily, excepting my hobby.
These Rantzau pages
Hyperlink invoegen.
E-mail address:
Webaddress:
http://www.geocities.com/ranzovius
Researching the Family:
My own parents
Not very interesting, as all of them were manual workers or peasants.
However, thinking I was the last of the tribe, I discovered a lost branch.
* My wives' parents
* My first wife (Danish)
The same as above, with one exception!
* My second wife (Dutch-Chinese-Indonesian)
Alas, the data are in Djakarta.
I am a 70 year old Naval Architect by profession.
Some 10 years after I finished the (Delft) Technical University, shipbuilding in Europe went into a slump. I joined the army (Quarter Master General Services), more in particular the Corps of Engineers, as a civilian. There I enjoyed doing a lot of things I did not know anything about.
Never a dull moment!
I finished doing technical management policy, such as Quality Assurance and Configuration Management. I had a lot of fun understanding when Americans and Brits started to misunderstand each other (let alone the others!) while working in a NATO Group on a glossary of CM terms.
That's about as far away from shipbuilding as you can get.
Having been born curious, and never been cured, I enjoy following, at a leasurely pace, all the wonderfull discoveries of modern science.
Astro-physical, bio-technical, evolution, brain knowledge, archeology, the lot.
Lately, for obvious reasons, I got particularly interested in DNA, especially after reading the Thomas Jefferson story. See the similarities!
Last changed: 03/26/2001