Johann Heinrich Adolf Logemann

Johann Heinrich Adolf Logemann (1945)

Johann Heinrich Adolf Logemann (born January 19, 1892 in Rotterdam ; † November 12, 1969 in Noordwijkerhout ) was a Dutch lawyer , university professor and politician of the Partij van de Arbeid (PvdA).

Life

After visiting the elementary school and the Public High School in Rotterdam citizens, he completed 1909-1912 in suffering a vocational training to officials in the Dutch colonial administration . Subsequently, from 1912 to 1913 he was an administrative officer at the Vice President in Blora in the Dutch East Indies and then there first as a vice controller and finally from 1913 to 1914 controller. He then became inspector in Bodjonegara in 1914 and from 1915 to 1921 he was on duty officer for pest control in Soerakarta in the Dutch East Indies, before he was on duty inspector for housing improvement and pest control there between 1921 and 1923.

In addition, he studied Indology and law at the Rijksuniversiteit Leiden from 1921 to 1923 , completing his law studies in 1923 with a doctorate with a dissertation on De grondslagen der vennootschapsastening in Nederland en Indië cum laude.

After his return to the Dutch East Indies, he was briefly managing paymaster general in Batavia in 1924 and then in October 1939 took over a professorship for constitutional and administrative law at the Batavia law school, where he taught until 1939. After his return to the Netherlands, he was arrested by the German occupying forces in July 1940 and interned in Buchenwald concentration camp . In November 1941 Logemann was transferred from there to the Haaren camp and was last in the Sint-Michielsgestel hostage camp from May 1942 to September 1944 .

After the end of the Second World War , he was appointed Minister for Overseas Territories in June 1945 in the cabinet of Prime Minister Willem Schermerhorn and was a member of this until July 1946. During his tenure he was confronted with the proclamation of the Republic of Indonesia on August 17, 1945 and the subsequent liberation of the Indonesians in the Indonesian War of Independence . He did not want to negotiate with Sukarno because of his ties to the Japanese occupation forces during the war, but instead held talks with other Indonesian politicians on the De Hoge Veluwe estate about the future of the Dutch East Indies - ultimately unsuccessful.

In addition, he was a representative of the PvdA from June 1946 to October 1947 member of the Second Chamber of the States General . Most recently Logemann was professor of constitutional and administrative law of the Dutch East Indies, Suriname and Curaçao as well as general political theory at the Rijksuniversiteit Leiden from October 1947 until his retirement in September 1962, after leaving parliament .

Publications

• Het staatsrecht van Nederlands-Indië , 1947
• Over de theory van een digitized constitutional law , 1948
• Het staatsrecht van Indonesië , 1954
• Nieuwe Gegevens over het ontstaan ​​van de Indonesische Grondwet van 1945 , 1962

Web links

• CV (Parlement & Politiek)