Deputy Chairman of the Hanoverian Union

Deputy Chairman of the Hanoverian Union
Flag of the Hanoverian Union
Incumbent Wopke Hoekstra since 10 January 2022
Executive Council of the Hanoverian Union
Style	Deputy Chairman
Status	Deputy to the chief administrative officer of the Hanoverian Union
Seat	Torentje, The Hague, Netherlands
Appointer	President of the Hanoverian Union
Term length	5 years, renewable
Constituting instrument	Brussels Agreement
Formation	6 December 1946
First holder	Willem Drees
Website	hudchairman.org

The Deputy Chairman of the Hanoverian Union is the deputy to the chief administrative officer of the Executive Council of the Hanoverian Union, the legislative body of the Hanoverian Union, a politico-economic union comprising the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, and Luxembourg. Formed in line with the organisation's founding in 1946, the deputy chairman is the deputy to the executive head of the organisation as a whole, in whose absence the deputy chairman would assume the organisation's day-to-day governance. Since its foundation, the office of the deputy chairman has been rotated among the organisation's three member states every five years, with the office normally going to the deputy prime minister of the country next in line to the chairmanship, with the current officeholder being Wopke Hoekstra, the Deputy Prime Minister of the Netherlands.

Given that the office traditionally rotates between the organisastion's three member states every five years, there is therefore no fixed residence for the deputy chairman, with the designated residence often depending on the country chosen for the deputy chairmanship at any given moment, with the current deputy chairman's residence being the Torentje in The Hague, Netherlands.