Dick Berlijn

{{Short description|Dutch general}}

{{Infobox officeholder

| honorific_prefix = General

| name = Dick Lodewijk Berlijn

| image = CDS Dick Berlijn.jpg

| image_size = 250px

| alt =

| caption = Berlijn in 2005

| nickname = "Quicky"[http://www.ad.nl/binnenland/2228304/lsquoQuickyrsquo_moet__onthaasten.html Article on Dick Berlijn in AD]

| office = Chief of Defence

| term_start = 5 June 2004

| term_end = 17 April 2008

| predecessor = Lieutenant admiral Luuk Kroon

| successor = General Peter van Uhm

| birth_name =

| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1950|3|18}}

| birth_place = Amsterdam

| death_date =

| death_place =

| placeofburial =

| allegiance = {{flag|Netherlands}}

| branch = {{air force|Netherlands}}

| serviceyears = 1969–2008

| rank = 20px General

| commands = Chief of the Netherlands Defence Staff

| unit =

| battles =

{{tree list}}

• Lebanon (UNIFIL)
• Operation Deny Flight
• War in Afghanistan
• International Security Assistance Force

{{tree list/end}}

| awards = Legion of Merit, NATO Medal, Order of Orange-Nassau, Légion d´honneur

}}

General Dick Lodewijk Berlijn (born March 18, 1950, in Amsterdam) is a retired Royal Netherlands Air Force four-star general, who served as Chief of Defence of the Netherlands (Chief of the Netherlands Defence Staff) from 2004, when he succeeded Lt. Adm. Luuk Kroon, until 2008, when he was succeeded by Gen. Peter van Uhm. In 2005, the post was renamed from Chef-Defensiestaf to Commandant der Strijdkrachten ("Commander of the Armed Forces") following a reorganisation, but the term "Chief of Defence Staff" is still the one usually used in English translations. His office saw Dutch military presence in Uruzgan with ISAF, as well as naval contributions to the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon, among other interventions. He has been awarded[http://www.nato.int/cv/chod/nl/berlijn-e.htm Awards of Dick Berlijn on NATO website] with the Légion d'honneur and the Legion of merit, and the Order of Orange-Nassau, all in the degree of commander, and the Order of Orange-Nassau with swords. Berlijn graduated from the Koninklijke Militaire Academie in 1973.[http://www.nato.int/cv/chod/nl/berlijn-e.htm Dick Berlijn on the NATO website]