Johannes Herbert August Willem, Baron van Heerdt tot Eversberg (22 February 1829 – 10 January 1893) was a Dutch naval officer, civil servant, and colonial administrator.

[1][2] The same year, he was part of the Dutch–French border commission tasked with mapping the Marowijne River which forms to boundary between Suriname and French Guiana.

[1] In 1868, he became custodian of the first mortgage office in Suriname,[1][5] however he returned the same year to the Netherlands for health reasons, and in 1869 started to work for the Ministry of the Colonies.

[1] On 31 May 1880, van Heerdt tot Eversberg was appointed Governor of Curaçao and Dependencies,[6] and was installed on 1 October 1880.

[7] Cornelis van Sypesteyn [nl], the governor of Suriname, was accused of personally profiting from gold concessions, and subsequently turned in his resignation.