Piet Tekelenburg

{{Short description|Dutch footballer (1894–1945)}}

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|name = Piet Tekelenburg

|image = Piet Tekelenburg.jpg

|caption = Tekelenburg in 1919

|fullname = Pieter Tekelenburg

|birth_date = {{birth date|1894|11|06|df=yes}}

|birth_place = Haarlem, Netherlands

|death_date = {{death date and age|1945|4|1|1894|11|06|df=yes}}

|death_place =Pangkal Pinang, Dutch East Indies

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|nationalyears1 = 1919

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Piet Tekelenburg ({{birth date|1894|11|06|df=yes}} – {{death date|1945|4|1||df=yes}}) was a Dutch footballer. He was part of the Netherlands national team, playing two matches. He played his first match on 9 June 1919.{{cite web|url=http://www.voetbalstats.nl/caps.php|title=Totaal Interlands|trans-title=Total Interlands|publisher=voetbalstats.nl|accessdate=30 April 2016|language=Dutch}}

Tekelenburg became a physician. Since 1927 he worked in the Dutch East Indies as a medical officer at the KNIL.{{Cite web |title=Pieter Tekelenburg |url=https://www.oorlogsgravenstichting.nl/persoon/152729/pieter-tekelenburg |access-date=26 February 2021 |website=Oorlogsgravenstichting}}

At the age of 50, he died in a Japanese-run internment camp and was buried in Dutch War Cemetery Leuwigajah in Cimahi, West Java.

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