Dirck en Hendrick van Os(s)
De broers Dirck van Os (1556-1615) en Hendrick van Os (1555-<1621) waren Vlamingen die na de val van Antwerpen in 1585 net als duizenden andere protestante Zuid-Nederlanders naar Amsterdam vluchtten. Via hun oude netwerken zetten zij daar met succes hun handel op de Oostzee en de Middellandse Zee voort. Maar zij waren ook geïnteresseerd in de handel op Azië. Deze werd gedomineerd door de ‘erfvijand’: Spanje en Portugal. Maar de broers waren de durfinvesteerders van hun tijd en staken veel geld in deze handel. Zo financierden zij in 1595 de reis van Cornelis de Houtman naar ‘Indië’ (zie hieronder bij Frederick de Houtman). En in 1602 behoorden zij tot de belangrijkste investeerders in de Verenigde Oost-Indische Compagnie (VOC). In de VOC bundelden de handelaren op Azië hun krachten. En van de Nederlandse overheid kregen zij het alleenrecht op de vaart en handel op Azië. Maar de VOC was meer dan een handelsonderneming. Zij mocht ook onderhandelen met en oorlogvoeren tegen Europese concurrenten en de machthebbers in Azië, en gebieden veroveren en exploiteren. De VOC telde zes afdelingen (kamers) – er was een kamer in Amsterdam, Hoorn en Enkhuizen maar niet in Alkmaar. Het hoofdbestuur zetelde in Amsterdam. Dirck van Os was een van de oprichters van de VOC en samen met zijn broer een van de hoofdinvesteerders (f 47.000,-) en hij was een van de eerste bestuurders van de afdeling Amsterdam. De broers verdienden heel goed aan hun Aziatisch avontuur. En dat geld belegden zij in 1607 weer in de droogmaking van de Beemster, die voor 1/7 in hun handen kwam. Zo profiteerde Holland direct van de koloniale geldstroom die op gang kwam.
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Pieter Jacobsz Pauw
(Willem van der Vliet 1640, Sted. Mus. Alkmaar)