Raymond Henri Pos

Biography Pos was born on 9 March 1910 in a Jewish family who had been living in Suriname for generations. He left Suriname for the Netherlands to study at the grammar school in Alkmaar and studied law at Leiden University.

Pos returned to Suriname, and worked for the Justice Department. He was promoted deputy attorney general in 1942. In November 1947, Pos was appointed representative for Suriname in the Netherlands. A better representation was needed, and in January 1949, Henry Lucien de Vries succeeded him as commissioner. In 1953, Pos was appointed Chairman of the Suriname delegation to the Second Round Table Conference in The Hague to establish a new relation between the Netherlands and its former colonies.

In 1964, the Estates of Suriname nominated Pos as Governor-General to replace Currie. The nomination was returned by the States General of the Netherlands, because it only contained one name. On 29 October 1964, he was present on a Netherlands Antilles ambassador reception in Bonaire. During the reception, he became unwell, and was taken to hospital in Willemstad, Curaçao. Pos died on 5 November 1964, at the age of 54.

Family Raymond Pos was the older brother of the judge and author Hugo Pos.

In 1951, he married Elizabeth Wakkie, former editor of Het Vaderland, in the Hague.

Honours Commander of the Order of Orange-Nassau. Knight of the Order of the Netherlands Lion.