Jonkheer Carel Herman Aart van der Wijck (29 March 1840 – 8 July 1914) was Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies in 1893–1899.

Van der Wijck obtained a acknowledgement from the government for his decisive action to curb the disturbances in 1878 on the private country of Tjitrap (at the home of inspector Captain Von Balluseck).

On June 15, 1893, he was appointed on the recommendation of the Minister of Colonies Van Dedem to succeed Pijnacker Hordijk as Governor General of the Dutch East Indies.

[2] In 1894, at the initiative of Van der Wijck, the Dutch government intervened on Lombok, where there was a bloody battle between the Balinese rulers and the rest of the population.

The expeditionary power of about 2,500 men, led by Commander-in-Chief Major Vetter, was unexpectedly taken by surprise in the evening of August 25, 1894, and had to retreat to the coast with heavy losses.

The following morning Van der Wijck received a telegram with the messages about it, offered by the station manager on arrival at Weltevreden; in it General Vetter mentioned the Lombok debacle: the raid of the bivouacs at Tjakra Negara and Mataram, the hasty retreat to Ampenan, the killing of Major General Van Ham and of many officers and numerous soldiers, and the wounded and missing of many other soldiers.

The Netherlands certainly owed that to the army and fleet, but in the first place it was thanks to Van der Wijck, who took a decision in this matter so quickly and persevered and accepted full responsibility for it.

After returning to the Netherlands, Van der Wijck held a number of positions and supervisory directorships in business; the most important was that of president-commissioner of the Royal Dutch Society for the Exploitation of Petroleum Resources in the Dutch East Indies from 1903 to 1913; he was also chairman of the Mining Council established in 1902 and a member of the Senate of the States General (1904, succeeding Tak van Poortvliet).