Pieter Simon Hamel (10 November 1845 – 13 October 1900) was a Dutch diplomat who served as Consul General at Elmina, Bangkok and Amoy.
In the years after, he was among other things charged with performing religious services and installed as head of the tax office, as the keeper of civil records, as a translator, and as a substitute judge.
[3] Following a European leave between November 1877 to March 1878, Hamel returned to Elmina and was awarded the personal title of Consul General.
Other reasons included the safeguarding of Dutch trade interests and the exploration of the possibility to continue recruiting soldiers for the Royal Netherlands East Indies Army in Africa.
Hamel undertook a mission to Krindjabo, the capital of the Kingdom of Sanwi in contemporary Côte d'Ivoire, in which he found King Amatifou sympathetic to his proposal, but unwilling to do anything without the blessing of the French.
Upon his return from European leave, Hamel tried to negotiate a deal in Liberia, an independent country not under the protection of either France or the United Kingdom, to no avail.
Coincidentally, the Consul General in Beijing, Hamel's direct superior, was the former Gold Coast governor Jan Helenus Ferguson.