Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies
The Governoor General of The Dutch East Indies represented the Dutch rule in the Ducth East Indies between 1610 and Dutch recognition of the independence of Indonesia in 1949.
The First Governoor Generaal were appointed by the Dutch East Indie Company ( VOC ). After VOC was formally dissolved in 1800, the territorial possessions of the VOC were nationalized under the Dutch government as the Dutch East Indies, a colony of the Netherlands. The Governoor Generaal were appointed by the dutch government.
Under the period of British control ( 1811-1816 ), the equivalent position was the Lieutenant Governor, of whom the most notable is Thomas Stanford Raffles. Between 1942 and 1945, while Hubertus Johannes van Mook was the nominal Governoor Generaal, the area was under Japanese control, and was governed by two sequence of governoors, in Java and Sumatra. After 1948 in negotiations for independence, the equivalent position was named High Commissioner of the Crown in the Dutch East Indies.
LIST of GOVERNOORS GENERAAL
Dutch East Indie Company
- 1610 - 1614 : Pieter Both
- 1614 - 1615 : Gerard Reynst
- 1615 - 1619 : Laurens Reael
- 1619 - 1623 : Jan Pieterszoon Coen
- 1623 - 1627 : Pieter de Carpentier
- 1627 - 1629 : Jan Pieterszoon Coen
- 1629 - 1632 : Jacques Specx
- 1632 - 1636 : Hendrik Brouwer
- 1636 - 1645 : Anthony van Diemen
- 1645 - 1650 : Cornelis van der Lijn
- 1650 - 1653 : Carel Reyniersz
- 1653 - 1678 : Joan Maetsuycker
- 1678 - 1681 : Rijckloff van Goens
- 1681 - 1684 : Cornelis Speelman
- 1684 - 1691 : Johannes Camphuys
- 1691 - 1704 : Willem van Outhoorn
- 1704 - 1709 : Joan van Hoorn
- 1709 - 1713 : Abraham van Riebeeck
- 1713 - 1718 : Christoffel van Swol
- 1718 - 1725 : Hendrick Zwaardecroon
- 1725 - 1729 : Mattheus de Haan
- 1729 - 1732 : Diederik Durven
- 1732 - 1735 : Dirk van Cloon
- 1735 - 1737 : Abraham Patras
- 1737 - 1741 : Adriaan Valckenier
- 1741 - 1743 : Johannes Thedens
- 1743 - 1750 : Gustaaf Willem baron van Imhoff
- 1750 - 1761 : Jacoob Mossel
- 1761 - 1775 : Petrus Albertus van der Parra
- 1775 - 1777 : Jeremias van Riemsdijk
- 1777 - 1780 : Reinier de Klerk
- 1780 - 1796 : Willem Arnold Alting
- 1796 - 1801 : Pieter Gerardus van Overstraten
- 1801 - 1805 : Johannes Siberg
- 1805 - 1808 : Albertus Wiese
- 1808 - 1811 : Herman Willem Daendels
- 1811 - 1811 : Jan Willem Janssens
- 1811 - 1816 : under British rules :
- 1811 : Gilbert Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound, 1st Earl of Minto
- 1811 - 1816 : Thomas Stamford Raffles
- 1816 : John Fendall
- 1816 - 1826 : G.A.G.Ph. Baron van der Capellen
- 1826 - 1830 : L.P.J.Burggraaf du Bus de Gisignies/ Hendrik Merkus de Kock
- 1830 - 1833 : Graaf van den Bosch
- 1833 - 1836 : Jean Chretien Baud
- 1836 - 1840 : Dominique Jacques de Eerens
- 1840 - 1841 : Carel Sirardus Willem van Hogendorp
- 1841 - 1844 : Pieter Merkus
- 1844 - 1845 : J.C. Reijnst
- 1845 - 1851 : Jan Jacoob Rochussen
- 1851 - 1856 : Albertus Jacobus Duymaer van Twist
- 1856 - 1861 : Charles Ferdinand Pahud
- 1861 - 1866 : Ludolph Anne Jan Wilt Sloet van de Beele
- 1866 - 1872 : Pieter Mijer
- 1872 - 1875 : James Loudon
- 1875 - 1881 : Johan Wilhelm van Lansberge
- 1881 - 1884 : Freserik s'Jacoob
- 1884 - 1888 : Otto van Rees
- 1888 - 1893 : Cornelis Pijnacker Hordijk
- 1893 - 1899 : Carel Herman Aart van Wijck
- 1899 - 1904 : Willem Rooseboom
- 1904 - 1909 : Johannes Benedictus van Heutsz
- 1909 - 1916 : Alexander Willem Frederik Idenburg
- 1916 - 1921 : Johan Paul van Limburg Stirum
- 1921 - 1926 : Dirk Fock
- 1926 - 1931 : Andries Cornelis Dirk de Graeff
- 1931 - 1936 : Bonifacius Cornelis de Jonge
- 1936 - 1942 : Alidius Warmoldus Lambertus Tjarda van Starkenborgh Stachouwer
- 1942 - 1948 : Hubertus Johannes van Mook
- 1942 - 1945 : Under Japanese control
- March - November 1942 : Hitoshi Imamura
- November 1942 - November 1944 : Kumashaki Harada
- November 1944 - September 1945 : Shigeichi Yamamoto
- March - July 1942 : Tomoyuki Yamashita ( the tiger of Malaya )
- July 1942 - April 1943 : Yaheita Saito
- April 1943 - August 1945 : Moritake Tanabe
- 1948 - 1949 : Louise Beel ( High Commissioner )
- 1949 : A.H.J Lovink ( High Commissioner )
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