Johan Furstner | |
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.jpg) Furstner sometime between 1941 and 1945 | |
| Minister of State | |
| In office 25 August 1945 – 1 January 1963 | |
| Monarch | Queen Wilhelmina |
| Minister of the Navy | |
| In office 27 July 1941 – 23 February 1945 | |
| Monarch | Queen Wilhelmina |
| Prime Minister | Pieter Sjoerds Gerbrandy |
| Preceded by | Hendrik van Boeijen |
| Succeeded by | Jim de Booy |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 16 January 1887 Amsterdam, Netherlands |
| Died | 15 September 1970 (aged 83) The Hague, Netherlands |
| Political party | Independent Liberal Conservative |
| Alma mater | Royal Naval Institute, Willemsoord |
| Profession | Naval officer |
| Military service | |
| Allegiance | Netherlands |
| Branch/service | Royal Netherlands Navy |
| Years of service | 1906–1945 |
| Rank | Lieutenant admiral |
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Johannes Theodorus Furstner[1] (18 January 1887 – 15 September 1970) was a Dutch naval officer and politician. Reaching the rank of lieutenant admiral (Dutch: luitenant-admiraal), he served as Minister of the Navy during World War II in the Second Gerbrandy cabinet.
Furstner was a naval theorist and a central figure in the Royal Netherlands Navy from the late 1930s through the end of World War II in 1945.[1] He was educated at the Hogere Krijgsschool (English: Higher Military School) and the French École supérieure de guerre (English: Superior School of warfare). Although he was a co-founder of the Alliance for National Reconstruction (Dutch: Verbond voor Nationaal Herstel), he had little interest in the pre-World War II Dutch political party system. When Nazi Germany overran the Netherlands in May 1940, moved to London to continue service in the Dutch government-in-exile there, although he was indignant about the Dutch cabinet's decision to flee the Netherlands. From 1941 to 1945, he served simultaneously as both Minister of the Navy and as commander-in-chief of the Royal Netherlands Navy in the Dutch government-in-exile in London. After World War II he was a member of the Council of State for more than 17 years.