Govert Huijser

{{Short description|Dutch military officer (1931–2014)}}

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| honorific_prefix = General

| name = Govert Huijser

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| caption = Huijser in 1986

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| office = Chiefs of the Defence Staff

| term_start = 5 July 1983

| term_end = 10 December 1988

| predecessor = General Cor de Jager

| successor = General Peter Graaff

| birth_name = Govert Lambertus Johan Huijser

| birth_date = {{Birth date|1931|2|6}}

| birth_place = Surabaya, Indonesia

| death_date = {{Death date and age|2014|1|5|1931|2|6}}

| death_place = Roosendaal, Netherlands

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| branch = {{army|Netherlands}}

| serviceyears = 1952-1988

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Govert Huijser (6 February 1931 – 5 January 2014) was a Dutch general and Chief of the Defence Staff between 1983 and 1988.

Huijser was born in Surabaya, in the then Dutch East Indies. During World War II he was imprisoned in a Japanese internment camp. In 1949 he enrolled in the Royal Military Academy of the Netherlands.{{cite web|url=http://www.defensie.nl/actueel/nieuws/2014/01/09/46210433/Oud_CDS_Huijser_82_overleden |title=Oud-CDS Huijser (82) overleden |language=Dutch |publisher=Defensie |date=9 January 2014 |accessdate=30 January 2014 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20140202203516/http://www.defensie.nl/actueel/nieuws/2014/01/09/46210433/Oud_CDS_Huijser_82_overleden |archivedate=2 February 2014 }} He graduated as a second lieutenant.{{cite web|author= |url=http://nos.nl/artikel/595075-oudgeneraal-huijser-overleden.html |title=Oud-generaal Huijser overleden |language=Dutch |publisher=Nederlandse Omroep Stichting |date=9 January 2014 |accessdate=30 January 2014}}

As major general he served as commanding officer of the First Division "7 December".

In 1983 he was promoted to Chief of the Defence Staff (Dutch:Chef Defensiestaf). During this time he was the only four-star general of the Netherlands. In 1986 he was made aide-de-camp to Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands. In 1988 he reached the mandatory age of retirement, he was succeeded as Chief of the Defence Staff by Peter Graaff.

He died on 5 January 2014 in Roosendaal.