Hubertus van Mook

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Hubertus van Mook
Hubertus van Mook in 1947
Lieutenant Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies
In office 8 March 1942 – 15 October 1948
Monarchs	Wilhelmina Juliana
Preceded by	Tjarda van Starkenborgh Stachouwer
Succeeded by	Louis Beel
Personal details
Born	Hubertus Johannes van Mook (1894-05-30)30 May 1894 Semarang, Dutch East Indies
Died	10 May 1965(1965-05-10) (aged 70) L'Isle-sur-la-Sorgue, France
Alma mater	Leiden University

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.^[1] Van Mook also had a son named Cornelius van Mook who studied marine engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.^[1] 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.