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Jaap (Jacobus) Nauwelaerts de Agé (The Hague, 21 November 1917 - Bloemendaal, May 6, 2016) was a Dutch judoka and sports director. He was a pioneer for modern budo sports. Career
Nauwelaerts de Agé is one of the founders of modern budo sports in mainly the Netherlands and Europe. He was co-founder of the "Judo Bond Netherlands" (1939), the "European Judo Union" (EJU, 1948) and the "International Judo Federation" (IJF) in 1951. From the "European Judo Union" he was president (1957-1960) and the first vice president (1952-1957). Both inside and outside these organizations, he has worked for the development and promotion of judo, and to a lesser extent jiujitsu, to western sports.
Together with Charles Palmer and Teizo Kawamura, he formed the first referee committee of the IJF who drafted the International Judo Referee Structure and Regulations. Around the jiujitsu he conceived in the 1940-1945 with Gé Koning, Bob van Nieuwenhuizen and Maurice van Nieuwenhuizen from the NaKoNi system, which until 1984 was mainly in the Netherlands as a standard practice for sports. >
Jaap Nauwelaerts came into contact with judo at Maurice van Nieuwenhuizen's gym in The Hague. There he had signed up in 1937 as a student for jiujitsu. One of the first introductions of Old Judo in The Netherlands, Johan van der Bruggen, gave lessons. Shortly after World War II, Jaap Nauwelaerts in Overveen set up his own gym with judo on the program. This gym is still one of the oldest in the Netherlands, and judo and jiujitsu are still given. In order to promote judo and jiujitsu, Nauwelaerts, along with detective of the Haarlem police, Jan Feith, gave demonstrations on site and provided demonstration films. Also, Nauwelaerts became the first judiciary of the CIOS in Overveen.
At the sports level, his silver medal at the Dutch and European championships has been highest.
In 2004, he is distinguished by the EJU with the very rarely forgiven ninth and then the EJU's presidency for his merit. On November 15, 2008, he was even promoted to the tenth by the JBN.
He passed away in 2016 at the age of 98.
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