Claim

Claim 936

Andries Cornelis Dirk de Graeff took office as Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies in Batavia on March 26, 1926.

Published 2026-09-26. Last reviewed 2026-09-26. 1 source.

Statement: Andries Cornelis Dirk de Graeff took office as Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies in Batavia on March 26, 1926.
Field: announced_by
Value: De Graeff became Governor-General on March 26, 1926
About: incident 1926-dutch-east-indies-mawa-article-153bis
Source: Nobuto Yamamoto, Print Power and Censorship in Colonial Indonesia, 1914-1942 (Cornell University dissertation)
Publisher: Nobuto Yamamoto, Print Power and Censorship in Colonial Indonesia, 1914-1942 (Cornell University dissertation)
Method: outlet report
Checked: 2026-09-26
Confidence: medium
Status: current
Source date: 2011

Quotation from the source

the new Governor-General, Andries Cornelis Dirk de Graeff, assumed his office in Batavia on March 26, 1926.