Hubertus van Mook
| Hubertus van Mook | |
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Hubertus van Mook in 1942
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| Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies | |
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In office 1942–1948 |
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| Monarch | Wilhelmina |
| Preceded by | Tjarda van Starkenborgh Stachouwer |
| Succeeded by | Louis Beel |
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Hubertus Johannes van Mook 30 May 1894 Semarang, Dutch East Indies |
| Died | 10 May 1965 (aged 70) L'Isle-sur-la-Sorgue, France |
Hubertus Johannes "Huib" van Mook (30 May 1894 – 10 May 1965) was a Dutch administrator in the East Indies. During the Indonesian National Revolution, he served as the Acting Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies from 1942 to 1948. Van Mook also had a son named Cornelius van Mook who studied marine engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He also wrote about Java - and his work on Kota Gede is a good example of a colonial bureaucrat capable of examining and writing about local folklore.
Hubertus van Mook was born in Semarang in Java on 30 May 1894. As with many Dutch and Indos growing up in the East Indies, he came to regard the colony particularly Java as his home. Following the Japanese conquest of Indonesia in 1942, Hubertus van Mook was appointed as Acting Governor-General by the Dutch East Indies government in exile near Brisbane, Australia. Due to his liberal inclinations and sympathies towards Indonesian nationalism, many conservative Dutch distrusted his policies and he was never given the full title of Governor-General. Due to the weakened position of the Dutch due to the Nazi invasion and occupation, much of the task of retaking the East Indies following the Japanese surrender in August 1945 was carried out by Australian and British forces. While Australian forces succeeded in occupying the Outer Islands with minimal resistance, British forces in Java and Sumatra were challenged by a nascent Indonesian Republic led by Sukarno and Hatta.
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