Hendrik Daniëlsz Hooft

Hendrik Daniëlszoon Hooft, Ambachtsheer of Urk and Emmeloord (23 June 1716 in Amsterdam – 31 August 1794 in Loenersloot) was a Dutch politician during the Patriottentijd.

[2] In later years he was co-opted in the Amsterdam vroedschap, as was his due as a member of the Hooft family of regenten, and elected several times as a burgemeester of the city.

Therefore, the leaders of the Patriot faction in the States of Holland, the pensionaries Adriaan van Zeebergh and Cornelis de Gijselaar, had proposed that the so-called "Legion of Salm"[Note 2] would be put in garrison in that city as additional assurance.

This time a deputation of 60 officers of the Amsterdam schutterij, led by colonel Isaac van Goudoever, demanded entry to the chamber where the vroedschap was in session, discussing the proposal.

This intervention so enraged the majority of the regenten, led by burgemeester Dedel, that they immediately moved to reject the proposal, and even demanded the dissolution of the "Legion of Salm".

This elicited a strong reaction from the schutterij on 26 February when an even larger group of officers forced their way into the antechamber of the Council Chamber.

And on 20 April an incendiary pamphlet appeared on the Amsterdam streets, entitled Het Verraad Ontdekt ("Treason Unmasked"), disclosing the whole conspiracy.

On 21 April this petition was presented while the Dam Square in front of the Amsterdam City Hall was filled with demonstrating armed citizens.

[7] After the Prussian invasion of Holland in September 1787, followed by the fall of Amsterdam on 10 October 1787, Hooft voluntarily resigned as burgemeester and member of the vroedschap together with such politicians as Gerrit de Graeff (II) van Zuid-Polsbroek.