Gerbrandy, Pieter Sjoerds
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▪ prime minister of The Netherlands
born April 13, 1885, Goengamieden, Neth.
died Sept. 7, 1961, The Hague
Dutch statesman who as prime minister (1940–45) conducted The Netherlands' World War II government-in-exile and controlled its armed forces (1940–44).
Gerbrandy obtained his law degree at the Free University of Amsterdam in 1911 and practiced law thereafter. He was a member of the provincial government of Friesland from 1920 to 1930 and then was a law professor at the Free University of Amsterdam from 1930 to 1939.
As minister of justice from 1939, Gerbrandy fled to London with the royal family and the rest of the Cabinet (May 1, 1940) during the German invasion. However, the Cabinet-in-exile remained the legal government of the nation. Appointed prime minister in September 1940, he directed the war effort of all Dutch armed forces not in occupied territory. Even after the Japanese conquest of the Dutch East Indies (now Indonesia) and the destruction of the naval fleet stationed there (February 1942), he controlled the remainder of the navy, the large merchant marine, and the Caribbean colonies.
Gerbrandy maintained contact with Dutch resistance groups and handled relations with the British and other Allied governments. In April 1945 he was successful in persuading the Allies to air-drop large quantities of food to the starving population of western Holland, which was still occupied by the Germans. Resigning as prime minister after the country was liberated (June 1945), he served in the lower house of the Parliament from 1948 to 1958.
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