Hendrik Hooft

Hendrik Danielsz Hooft

Hendrik Danielsz Hooft (born June 23, 1716 in Amsterdam ; † August 24, 1794 on the Valk-en-Heining estate near Loenersloot ) was a regent of Amsterdam who was named as the ruling mayor eight times between 1769 and 1787 . Hooft also acted as Ambachtsherr von Urk , as well as Hoogheemraad of the Dutch dike administration .

biography

Sub-article: Regent of Amsterdam

The son of Daniel Gerritszoon Hooft (1675–1643) and Sophia Maria Reael (1687–1724) was one of the most successful bankers and merchants trading on the Amsterdam Stock Exchange in the middle of the 18th century . He thus belonged to the aristocratic Hooft family . Hendrik Hooft also owned two coffee plantations in the Berbice colony . He was married to Anna Adriana Smissaert dead Sandenburg , one of her daughters, Hester Hooft , married in 1786 to the Dutch admiral Jan Hendrik van Kinsbergen , Count of Doggersbank.

Hendrik Hooft stood together with Joan Derk van der Capellen tot den Pole , Rutger Jan Schimmelpenninck and Jan Bernd Bicker at the head of the Dutch patriot movement , which from 1781 was very popular among the predominantly young, republican-minded population. Their endeavors were directed against the increasingly monarchical claim to power of the House of Orange-Nassau and aimed at reintroducing a strong republican government - as was the case in the time of Johan van Oldenbarnevelt and Johan de Witt . Hooft was reverently dubbed Vader Hooft by his fellow campaigners .

In 1787 - after the invasion of the Netherlands by the Prussian troops and the reinstatement of the heir Wilhelm V of Orange - Hendrik Hooft, the aforementioned Jan Bernd Bicker, Carel Wouter Visscher , Cornelis van Foreest , Martinus van Toulon , Gerrit II de Graeff and various other people standing in the Dutch government and its cities resigned from their offices. After a trip that took him to Rouen and Paris , Hooft spent his twilight years at his country estate Valk-en-Heining near Loenersloot .

His grave is in the former Hooftschen domain Vreeland .

predecessor	Office	successor
Gerrit Hooft and Egbert de Vry Temminck	Regent and Mayor of Amsterdam 1769–1787	With the invasion of the Prussian troops and the reinstatement of the Oran inheritance holders, the political supremacy of the Amsterdam regent patriarchy ended.