List_of_Governors-General_of_the_Dutch_East_Indies

List of governors of the Dutch East Indies

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This is a list of governors and colonial administrators of the Dutch East Indies.^[1]^[2]

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Dutch East India Company (VOC)
No.	Portrait	Name	From	Until
1		Pieter Both	1610	1614
2		Gerard Reynst	1614	1615
3		Laurens Reael	1615	1619
4		Jan Pieterszoon Coen	1619	1623
5		Pieter de Carpentier	1623	1627
6		Jan Pieterszoon Coen	1627	1629
7		Jacques Specx	1629	1632
8		Hendrik Brouwer	1632	1636
9		Anthony van Diemen	1636	1645
10		Cornelis van der Lijn	1645	1650
11		Carel Reyniersz	1650	1653
12		Joan Maetsuycker	1653	1678
13		Rijckloff van Goens	1678	1681
14		Cornelis Speelman	1681	1684
15		Johannes Camphuys	1684	1691
16		Willem van Outhoorn	1691	1704
17		Joan van Hoorn	1704	1709
18		Abraham van Riebeeck	1709	1713
19		Christoffel van Swoll	1713	1718
20		Hendrick Zwaardecroon	1718	1725
21		Mattheus de Haan	1725	1729
22		Diederik Durven	1729	1732
23		Dirck van Cloon	1732	1735
24		Abraham Patras	1735	1737
25		Adriaan Valckenier	1737	1741
26		Johannes Thedens	1741	1743
27		Gustaaf Willem van Imhoff	1743	1750
28		Jacob Mossel	1750	1761
29		Petrus Albertus van der Parra	1761	1775
30		Jeremias van Riemsdijk	1775	1777
31		Reynier de Klerck	1777	1780
32		Willem Arnold Alting	1780	1796

Dutch East Indies
No.	Portrait	Name	From	Until	Monarch
1		Pieter Gerardus van Overstraten	1796	1801	Batavian Republic (19 January 1795 – 5 June 1806)
2		Johannes Siberg	1801	1805
3		Albertus Henricus Wiese	1805	1806
French interregnum in the Dutch East Indies under the Kingdom of Holland (1806–1811)
3		Albertus Henricus Wiese	1806	1808	Louis I House of Bonaparte (5 June 1806 – 1 July 1810)
4		Herman Willem Daendels	1808	1811	Louis I House of Bonaparte (5 June 1806 – 1 July 1810)
					Louis II House of Bonaparte (1 July 1810 – 9 July 1810)
					Napoleon I House of Bonaparte (9 July 1810 – 18 September 1811)
5		Jan Willem Janssens	1811	1811
British interregnum in the Dutch East Indies (1811–1816)
—		Robert Rollo Gillespie ^{Acting General}	1811	1811	George III House of Hanover (9 August 1811 – 19 August 1816)
6		Stamford Raffles	1811	1816
7		John Fendall	1816	1816
Dutch regained full control of Dutch East Indies with three Commissioners-General
8		Cornelis Theodorus Elout	1816	1819	William I Willem I House of Orange-Nassau (19 August 1816 – 16 January 1819)
		Godert van der Capellen
		Arnold Adriaan Buyskes
Cornelis Theodorus Elout and Arnold Adriaan Buyskes left
9		Godert van der Capellen	1819	1826	William I Willem I House of Orange-Nassau (16 January 1819 – 7 October 1840)
10		Leonard du Bus de Gisignies ^{De jure Governor-General}	1826	1830
10		Hendrik Merkus de Kock ^{Lieutenant Governor-General}	1826	1830
11		Johannes van den Bosch	1830	1833
12		Jean Chrétien Baud	1833	1836
13		Dominique Jacques de Eerens	1836	1840
—		Carel Sirardus Willem van Hogendorp ^{Acting Governor-General}	1840	1841
—			1840	1841	William II Willem II House of Orange-Nassau (7 October 1840 – 17 March 1849)
14		Pieter Merkus	1841	1844
—		Joan Cornelis Reynst ^{Acting Governor-General}	1844	1845
15		Jan Jacob Rochussen	1845	1851
15		Jan Jacob Rochussen	1845	1851	William III Willem III House of Orange-Nassau (17 March 1849 – 23 November 1890)
16		Albertus Jacobus Duymaer van Twist	1851	1856
17		Charles Ferdinand Pahud	1856	1861
18		Ludolph Anne Jan Wilt Sloet van de Beele	1861	1866
19		Pieter Mijer	1866	1872
20		James Loudon	1872	1875
21		Johan Wilhelm van Lansberge	1875	1881
22		Frederik s'Jacob	1881	1884
23		Otto van Rees	1884	1888
24		Cornelis Pijnacker Hordijk	1888	1893
24		Cornelis Pijnacker Hordijk	1888	1893	Wilhelmina House of Orange-Nassau (23 November 1890 – 4 September 1948)
25		Carel Herman Aart van der Wijck	1893	1899
26		Willem Rooseboom	1899	1904
27		Johannes Benedictus van Heutsz	1904	1909
28		Alexander Willem Frederik Idenburg	1909	1916
29		Johan Paul van Limburg Stirum	1916	1921
30		Dirk Fock	1921	1926
31		Andries Cornelis Dirk de Graeff	1926	1931
32		Bonifacius Cornelis de Jonge	1931	1936
33		Alidius Tjarda van Starkenborgh	1936	1942
—		Hubertus Johannes van Mook ^{Lieutenant Governor-General}	1942	1948
—		Louis Joseph Maria Beel ^{High Commissioner of the Dutch East Indies}	1948	1949	Juliana House of Orange-Nassau (4 September 1948 – 27 December 1949)
—		Antonius Hermanus Johannes Lovink ^{High Commissioner of the Dutch East Indies}	1949	1949

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