{"id":147655,"date":"1987-03-24T21:46:00","date_gmt":"1987-03-24T19:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/oldaalten.nl\/aalten-achteruit\/jan-elferink\/"},"modified":"2026-06-15T22:18:42","modified_gmt":"2026-06-15T20:18:42","slug":"jan-elferink","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oldaalten.nl\/en\/aalten-achteruit\/jan-elferink\/","title":{"rendered":"Jan Elferink"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"is-style-text-subtitle is-style-text-subtitle--1 wp-block-paragraph\">Dagblad Tubantia, 24 March 1987<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:var(--wp--preset--spacing--20)\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>BREDEVOORT \u2013 If you do not know him, it would never cross your mind for a single moment that this man\u2019s profession might be that of a bank manager. Bank managers are generally expected to walk around with permanent pound signs in their eyes, but Jan Elferink certainly does not fit that mould. He is witty, always up for a laugh, a fast talker, and never caught off guard. Yet the residents of Bredevoort who deal with Jan Elferink on a business level know that beneath this jovial friendliness lies a sharp businessman\u2014a man who truly knows what he is talking about when it comes to financial matters.     <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure data-wp-context=\"{&quot;imageId&quot;:&quot;6a31855b74690&quot;}\" data-wp-interactive=\"core\/image\" data-wp-key=\"6a31855b74690\" class=\"wp-block-image alignright size-full is-resized wp-lightbox-container\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"760\" height=\"840\" data-wp-class--hide=\"state.isContentHidden\" data-wp-class--show=\"state.isContentVisible\" data-wp-init=\"callbacks.setButtonStyles\" data-wp-on--click=\"actions.showLightbox\" data-wp-on--load=\"callbacks.setButtonStyles\" data-wp-on--pointerdown=\"actions.preloadImage\" data-wp-on--pointerenter=\"actions.preloadImageWithDelay\" data-wp-on--pointerleave=\"actions.cancelPreload\" data-wp-on-window--resize=\"callbacks.setButtonStyles\" src=\"https:\/\/oldaalten.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Jan-Elferink-Dagblad-Tubantia-24-03-1987-1.jpg\" alt=\"Jan Elferink &#x2013; Dagblad Tubantia, 24 March 1987\" class=\"wp-image-138358\" style=\"width:400px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/oldaalten.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Jan-Elferink-Dagblad-Tubantia-24-03-1987-1.jpg 760w, https:\/\/oldaalten.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Jan-Elferink-Dagblad-Tubantia-24-03-1987-1-271x300.jpg 271w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 760px) 100vw, 760px\" \/><button\n\t\t\tclass=\"lightbox-trigger\"\n\t\t\ttype=\"button\"\n\t\t\taria-haspopup=\"dialog\"\n\t\t\tdata-wp-bind--aria-label=\"state.thisImage.triggerButtonAriaLabel\"\n\t\t\tdata-wp-init=\"callbacks.initTriggerButton\"\n\t\t\tdata-wp-on--click=\"actions.showLightbox\"\n\t\t\tdata-wp-style--right=\"state.thisImage.buttonRight\"\n\t\t\tdata-wp-style--top=\"state.thisImage.buttonTop\"\n\t\t>\n\t\t\t<svg xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"12\" height=\"12\" fill=\"none\" viewBox=\"0 0 12 12\">\n\t\t\t\t<path fill=\"#fff\" d=\"M2 0a2 2 0 0 0-2 2v2h1.5V2a.5.5 0 0 1 .5-.5h2V0H2Zm2 10.5H2a.5.5 0 0 1-.5-.5V8H0v2a2 2 0 0 0 2 2h2v-1.5ZM8 12v-1.5h2a.5.5 0 0 0 .5-.5V8H12v2a2 2 0 0 1-2 2H8Zm2-12a2 2 0 0 1 2 2v2h-1.5V2a.5.5 0 0 0-.5-.5H8V0h2Z\" \/>\n\t\t\t<\/svg>\n\t\t<\/button><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>Jan Elferink: \u201cHere, you are engaged both financially and socially\u201d<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He certainly learned that over the course of his 42-year banking career. This year, Jan is stepping down. As of 1 September, after he has shown his successor, G.W. te Brinke, the ropes, he will take early retirement. \u201cI am 60 now, and the years beyond sixty are precious. That is why I am bowing out. I still have plenty to keep me occupied. I\u2019ve already told my wife: if I do the work during the day that I currently do in the evenings, I will at least have a few evenings a week to myself,\u201d Elferink says, explaining his departure.      <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It was 42 years ago when, at the age of 18, he started at the Raiffeisenbank in Lichtenvoorde. \u201cI had always wanted to do that. But when I finished secondary school (ulo) in 1943, my father told me I had to help out in his painting business. Both of my brothers had been conscripted for <a href=\"https:\/\/nl.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Arbeitseinsatz\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">forced labour in Germany<\/a>, so I had no choice.\u201d   <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">However, the war was barely over when Jan saw his chance. The post-war monetary reform meant that banks had to take on extra staff. On 1 October 1945, he was hired, and exactly a year later, he transferred to the <a href=\"https:\/\/oldaalten.nl\/bredevoort\/markt-08-bredevoort\/\" type=\"post\" id=\"46717\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">bank in Bredevoort<\/a>. \u201cWhen I first arrived here, I thought: I\u2019ll gain a few years of experience and then move on to another town. But it never came to that. We feel very much at home here in Bredevoort. Happily, we were fully accepted into the community.\u201d      <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For twelve years, Jan cycled back and forth between Lichtenvoorde and Bredevoort every day, until he married in 1958 and became a true Bredevoorter. You can certainly call him that when you see how deeply integrated he has become in the Bredevoort community.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 id=\"h-keiharde-zaak\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">A hardheaded business<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In 1963, Jan was appointed manager of the bank in Bredevoort. \u201cBanking is a hardheaded money business. That really consumes your time. Perhaps that is why, as a counterweight, I took on all those pleasant and social activities outside of my work.\u201d   <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When Jan begins to list the activities he is or has been involved in, he takes quite some time. The local folk festival, the <a href=\"https:\/\/oldaalten.nl\/cultuur-sport\/feesten-evenementen\/gondelvaart-bredevoort\/\" type=\"post\" id=\"19274\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">gondola pageant<\/a>, the ice rink, board member of the school association, board member of <a href=\"https:\/\/oldaalten.nl\/en\/bredevoort\/st-bernardus\/\" type=\"post\" id=\"190\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">St Bernardus<\/a>, and so the list goes on. And that is leaving aside all the &#8220;ad hoc things&#8221; he occupies himself with, such as conducting charity auctions, organising carnival gatherings for the Zonnebloem charity, acting as a compere for the traditional brass band in Lichtenvoorde, and performing as a <a href=\"https:\/\/nl.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Tonpraten\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">buutreedner<\/a> (comic orator) during the carnival season.   <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI wanted to call it a day when my partner, Bonekamp from Lichtenvoorde, stopped. But so many requests came in from all sides that I still write a new comic monologue every year. All of that keeps you going. From a young age, I\u2019ve loved being a bit of a rebel. That was already the case at school, and later at the amateur dramatics society, which I joined when I was only fourteen.\u201d His penchant for fun is also well known among his fellow bank managers, who know him affectionately as \u201cEnerink from Smallevoort\u201d.       <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Elferink makes no secret of the fact that the work of a bank manager in a small community like Bredevoort is rather different from that in a large city. \u201cHere, you are not just engaged financially, but socially too.\u201d Elferink has seen the banking world change dramatically in over forty years: from a small room with a single desk and a safe where savings books were updated by hand, to an exceptionally modern, automated office building where the entire money trade takes place, but where holidays, insurance, and securities are sold as well.   <\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:var(--wp--preset--spacing--20)\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group has-accent-2-background-color has-background is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\" style=\"border-top-left-radius:30px;border-top-right-radius:30px;border-bottom-left-radius:30px;border-bottom-right-radius:30px;padding-top:var(--wp--preset--spacing--50);padding-right:var(--wp--preset--spacing--50);padding-bottom:var(--wp--preset--spacing--50);padding-left:var(--wp--preset--spacing--50)\">\n<h3 id=\"h-g-te-brinke-nu-directeur\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">G. te Brinke now manager<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">BREDEVOORT \u2013 As of 1 July, G.W. te Brinke from Lochem will join the Rabobank in Bredevoort as its new manager. Te Brinke was born and raised in Zelhem and is 41 years old. 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