Pieter Sjoerds Gerbrandy

Pieter Sjoerds Gerbrandy ( born April 13, 1885 in Goënga; † September 7, 1961 in The Hague) was a Dutch politician and September 3, 1940 to June 24, 1945 Prime Minister of the Dutch government in exile in London.

From 1920 to 1930 he was a member of the Provincial Parliament of Friesland for the anti- revolutionists Partij (ARP). Later he was a law professor at the Free University of Amsterdam and since 1939 the Dutch Minister of Justice. From 1936 to 1940 he was associate editor of the legal journal published in Amsterdam " Intellectual property - Copyright - the Intellectual Property ".

After the German attack on the Netherlands these capitulated on 14 May 1940. The royal family and the government fled to London. Gerbrandy took over the office of prime minister of the government in exile in London. He said December 8, 1941, the day after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, war on Japan. On September 4, 1944, he announced over Radio Oranje the Dutch for the early liberation. However, the focus of the military actions of the Allies moved then towards Germany, so that it is associated with a he initiated railway strike and the subsequent embargo by the German occupation under Arthur Seyss- Inquart to the collapse of the food supply of the population and a hunger winter in the Netherlands came. In April 1945, he was able to return to the Netherlands. After his resignation, he fought especially the East Asian policy of the new government. 1955, the honorary rank of Minister of State, he was awarded.