Schneiders was born in
Castricum as son of Louis Abraham Schneiders (1893-1956), who was a medical doctor since 1931 at the
GG&GD in Rotterdam, and Anna Margaretha Dorothea Schlüter (1897-1992). He studied
Dutch East Indies Jurisprudence at the
University of Utrecht and
Leiden. He served in the army between 1948 and 1950 in
Indonesia during the
Indonesian National Revolution. Subsequently, he worked at the Ministry of Education, Arts and Sciences, as deputy secretary of the Board of
Curators of the
Leiden University. From 1964 until his retirement in 1990 he worked at the
Ministry of Foreign Affairs. He held positions at the Dutch embassies in
Nigeria,
Lagos (1969-1973) and
Indonesia (1973-1977). From 1978 to 1979 he was a spokesman for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Thereafter he was
ambassador of the Netherlands to
Cameroon,
Equatorial Guinea,
Central African Republic,
Gabon;
Chad (1979-1982; based in
Yaoundé),
Zimbabwe (1982-1986); and based in
Wellington to
New Zealand,
Fiji,
Tonga;
West-Samoa (1986-1990) and
Tuvalu (1987-1990). He became Officer of the
Orde van Oranje-Nassau in 1981.
Writer As a writer he made his debut in 1951 with the short story
de Kanonnen, published in the literary magazine
Libertinage. Later he wrote short stories for
Hollands Weekblad,
Hollands Maandblad and
De Gids. He wrote several volumes for
Querido. From 1965 he wrote a weekly column for
NRC Handelsblad using the name
Drievoeter. == Personal ==