Jelle Holtkamp Sr., the progenitor of today’s Holtkamper brand, went to Ameland as early as 1928 with a tent of his own design. He had it made at a workshop in the northern Netherlands. In Ter Apel, Groningen, where he started as a bookkeeper and later had his own village store where eventually ‘Holtkamp’ tents were also sold. Also folding trailers and other camping products were later added to the assortment.
The origins of Holtkamper