Governors of Zeeland
Term of office
Party / Political affiliation
Jacob Hendrik Schorer (1760-1822)
16 May 1814[ 3] - 18 September 1817[ 3] (3 years, 125 days)
Hendrik Jacob van Doorn van Westcapelle (1786-1853)
19 March 1818[ 4] - 1 December 1826[ 4] (8 years, 257 days) ([Acting] since 16 July 1817)
Independent (Ultra-conservative)[ 4]
Ewout van Vredenburch (1779-1861)
1 August 1826[ 5] - 1 August 1850[ 5] (24 years, 0 days)
King's and Queen's commissioners of Zeeland
Term of office
Party / Political affiliation
Ewout van Vredenburch (1779-1861)
1 August 1850[ 5] - 1 January 1853[ 5] (2 years, 153 days)
Jacob George Hieronymus van Tets van Goudriaan (1812-1885)
1853[ 1] - 1858[ 1]
Independent (Liberal)[ 6]
Schelto van Heemstra (1807-1864)
29 May 1858[ 7] - 2 March 1860[ 7] (1 year, 305 days)
Independent (Pragmatic Liberal)[ 7]
Rudolph Willem van Lynden (1808-1876)
15 May 1860[ 8] - 19 April 1876[ 8] (15 years, 340 days)
Independent (Conservative-Liberal)[ 8]
Willem Six (1829-1908)
1 June 1876[ 9] - 20 August 1879[ 9] (3 years, 80 days)
Independent (Moderate Liberal)[ 9]
Abraham van Karnebeek (1836-1925)
1 October 1879[ 10] - 16 June 1884[ 10] (4 years, 259 days)
League of Free Liberals ("Old-Liberal")[ 10]
Willem Maurits de Brauw (1838-1898)
16 June 1884[ 11] - 29 June 1897[ 11] (13 years, 13 days)
Independent (Conservative-Liberal)[ 11]
Albert Johan Roest (1837-1920)
1 July 1897[ 12] - 1 May 1906[ 12] (8 years, 304 days)
Independent ("Old-Liberal")[ 12]
Herman Jacob Dijckmeester (1847-1942)
1 May 1906[ 13] - 1 May 1921[ 13] (15 years, 0 days)
Independent (Liberal)[ 13]
Johan Willem Quarles van Ufford (1882-1952)
1 May 1921[ 14] - 12 September 1940[ 14] (19 years, 134 days) [Fired] [ 14]
Independent (Christian-Historical )[ 14]
Petrus Dieleman (1873-1961)
13 September 1940[ 15] – 6 November 1944[ 16] (4 years, 54 days) [Acting] [ 17]
Anti-Revolutionary Party , since the surrender to Nazi-Germany , a sympathiser of National Socialism .[ 17]
King's and Queen's commissioners of Zeeland
Term of office
Party / Political affiliation
Guus de Casembroot (1906-1965)
6 November 1944[ 18] – 15 November 1944[ 19] (9 days) [Acting] [ 20]
Independent (Christian-Historical )[ 20]
Johan Willem Quarles van Ufford (1882-1952)
15 November 1944[ 14] - 1 February 1948[ 14] (3 years, 78 days) [Honorably Discharged] [ 21]
Independent (Christian-Historical )[ 14]
Guus de Casembroot (1906-1965)
1 February 1948[ 20] – 10 February 1965[ 20] (17 years, 9 days) [Died in Office] [ 20]
Independent (Christian-Historical )[ 20]
Jan van Aartsen (1909-1992)
1 June 1965[ 22] – 1 October 1974[ 22] (9 years, 122 days)
Anti-Revolutionary Party [ 22]
Kees Boertien (1927-2002)
16 January 1975[ 23] – 1 August 1992[ 23] (17 years, 198 days)
Anti-Revolutionary Party (1975-1980)[ 23]
Christian Democratic Appeal (1980–1992)[ 23]
Wim van Gelder (born 1942)
16 September 1992[ 24] – 1 February 2007[ 24] (14 years, 138 days)
Christian Democratic Appeal (Anti-Revolutionary )[ 24]
Karla Peijs (born 1944)
1 March 2007[ 25] – 1 March 2013[ 25] (6 years, 0 days)
Christian Democratic Appeal [ 25]
Han Polman (born 1963)
1 March 2013[ 26] – Incumbent (11 years, 319 days)
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