Hendrik Offerhaus

{{Short description|Dutch rower}}

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| name = Hendrik Karel Offerhaus

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| birth_date = {{Birth date|1875|05|20|df=y}}

| birth_place = Venhuizen, Netherlands

| death_date = {{Death date and age|1953|09|02|1875|05|20|df=y}}

| death_place = Wassenaar, Netherlands

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| alma_mater = University of Leiden

| occupation = Doctor

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{{MedalSport | Men's rowing}}

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Hendrik Karel Offerhaus (20 May 1875 – 2 September 1953) was a Dutch medical doctor and rower who competed in the 1900 Summer Olympics.{{cite book |author1=N. Japikse |title=Persoonlijkheden in het Koninkrijk der Nederlanden in woord en beeld |date=1938 |page=1732 |url=http://resources.huygens.knaw.nl/retroboeken/persoonlijkheden/#source=1&page=1729&view=imagePane&accessor=toc |access-date=25 April 2022 |language=Dutch}}{{cite news |author1=Johanna Groene |title=Hendrik Offerhaus |url=https://www.medischcontact.nl/nieuws/laatste-nieuws/artikel/hendrik-offerhaus.htm |access-date=25 April 2022 |work=Medisch Contact |date=20 June 2012 |language=Dutch}} He was part of the Dutch boat Minerva Amsterdam, which finished third in the eight event.

After completing his medical studies, he worked as a surgeon in The Hague, Groningen and Deventer among others. In Deventer he became involved with the Dutch Red Cross. During the Balkan War in 1913, he worked with the Dutch Red Cross in Greece. In 1931, he gave up his surgical practice in order to devote himself fully to the Red Cross. He later became secretary-general of the Dutch Red Cross.{{cite news |author1=H.H. Maas |title=In memoriam dr. H.K. Offerhaus |url=https://www.ntvg.nl/system/files/publications/1953130210002a.pdf |access-date=25 April 2022 |work=Nederlands Tijdschrift voor Geneeskunde |date=1 July 1953 |page=3021 |language=Dutch}}