Jonkheer Dirk Jan de Geer (14 December 1870 – 28 November 1960) was a Dutch nobleman lawyer conservative statesman and prime minister of the Netherlands (1926–1929 1939–1940). He was disgraced for advocating a peace settlement between the Kingdom and Nazi Germany in 1940. Born in Groningen he was a descendant of the de Geer family painted by Rembrandt. After receiving his doctorate in law in 1895 De Geer worked as a journalist and acted as town councillor of Rotterdam (1901–1907).
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