Jaap Weideman

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| honorific_prefix = Rear Admiral

| name = Jacob A.C. Weideman

| honorific_suffix = {{Post-nominals|country=ZAR|SM52|MMM}}

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| birth_date = {{Birth date|1936|03|08|df=y}}

| death_date = {{Death year and age|1996|1936}}

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| death_place = Cape Town

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| allegiance = {{ZAF}}

| branch = {{navy|South Africa}}

| serviceyears = 1954{{ndash}}198?

| rank = Rear Admiral

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• Inspector General (Navy)
• {{SAS|Maria van Riebeeck}}
• {{SAS|Mosselbaai}}

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| spouse = Marie Johanna de Villiers

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Rear Admiral Jacob Andries Cornelius 'Jaap' Weideman {{Post-nominals|country=ZAR|SM52|MMM}} (1936–1996) was a South African Navy officer.

He joined the Navy in 1954 and in 1955 attended the South African Military Academy.{{cite book | title=South Africa's Navy - the first Fifty years | publisher=W. J. Flesch & partners |last1=Goosen|first1=C | year=1973 | isbn=0-949989-02-9}}{{Rp|164}}

In 1968 he commanded {{SAS|Mosselbaai}}.{{Rp|196}}

In 1970 he became the first South African to qualify as a submariner and became the first Officer Commanding of {{SAS|Maria van Riebeeck}}.{{cite journal | url=http://reference.sabinet.co.za/webx/access/electronic_journals/contemp/contemp_v30_n2_a11.pdf | title=DUIKBOTE IN DIE SUID-AFRIKAANSE VLOOT: DIE EERSTE FASE, 1970-2003/ Submarines in the South African Navy | author=Wessels, Andre | journal=Journal for Contemporary History | year=2005 | volume=30 | issue=2 | pages=180–194}}

In 1982 he was appointed as Inspector General (Navy).{{cite web | url=http://152.111.1.87/argief/berigte/dieburger/1996/12/24/5/15.html | title=SA duikbootmatrose 'se vader' sterf/ Death of father of South African submariners | publisher=Die Burger | date=December 24, 1996 | access-date=January 19, 2015 | url-status=dead | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141205033523/http://152.111.1.87/argief/berigte/dieburger/1996/12/24/5/15.html | archive-date=December 5, 2014 }}