The Nederlandsche Oost Compagnie (NOC, also known as Nederlandsche Oostcompagnie. English: Dutch East Company) was a national socialist organisation that was founded during the Second World War on 6 June 1942 in Den Haag [The Hague] by NSB'er [NSB = Nationaal Socialistische Beweging, NSB'er = someone belonging to said party. Dutch nazi party] Meinoud Rost van Tonningen.

== Establishments ==
The organisation had establishments in Den Haag. The headquarters was located on the Amaliastraat 1-3 with a branch office for insurances. Another adress used was Parkstraat 22. The NOC also has branch offices in Berlin, Kaunas, Vilnius, Riga, Tartu, Rivne, Kiev, and Minsk.

== History, founding and goals ==
Another, German, organisation had already tried to exploit the captured lands to finance the German war economy, the Ostdeutsche Landbewirtschaftungsgesellschaft. There was another organisation called Werkdienst Holland, which let people work in the East under poor conditions.
Another organisation called the Commissie tot uitzending van landbouwers naar Oost-Europa [Commission for sending farmers to east Europe], whose chairman (later defence minister Cornelis Staf) quit after the formation of the NOC.

With the NOC, Rost van Tonningen wanted to establish Dutch colonies in the German occupied lands, mainly Ukraine and the Baltic states. The organisation saw itself as the continuation of the VOC. This would also be done by the colonial trading companies. These were cut off from the East Indies due to the war and had experience with this type of thing.

Another goal was to Aryanise east Europe.

== Activities ==
Thousands of Dutch land workers (Not all part of the NOC) went to work in (among other places) Ukraine. A lot of these had an NSB background or were pro-Germans, but there were also forced labourers among [us] them.

The success of the NOC was limited by the fact that there was not much enthusiasm for the intiative, and the Nazi's merely tolerated its existence because they expected them to profit from it. Another reason is the difficult flow of goods between the German occupied lands.
The NOC was also hindered by the German occupiers in regards to acquiring export licenses.

According to the post-war historian Loe de Jong, the headquarters was a big mess. This caused many private investors to stop investing. In autumn 1943, when the Germans retreated from Ukraine, the focus shifted to the Baltic states. The Dutch land workers fled the Baltic states to Germany when in 1944 these lands were regained by the Soviets.

== Leadership ==
Rost van Tonningen was chosen as president by Arthur Seyss-Inquart, the Dutch reichskommissar. He was also the chairman of the council of commissioners. Daniël Krantz was the managing director. Pieter Schelte Heerema was co-manager for a short while. F.B.J. Gips was president of the supervisory board and F.L. Rambonnet was comptroller general.

== Finances ==
The organisation was financed by the Dutch state, De Nederlandsche Bank [The Dutch bank], but also got help from the muncipality of Amsterdam and Rottedam.

== Subsidiaries ==
A subsidiary was founded on 11 January 1942 called the Nederlandsche Oostbouw (NOB, literally translated as Dutch East agriculture), a contractor company of which Pieter Schelte Heerema was the leader. The majority of the workers sent east worked for the NOB. The volunteers mostly worked for companies that were controlled by the NOB.

Other subsidiaries also existed, such as the Nederlandse Oostvisscherij (Dutch East fishing, which sent fishermen to Lake Peipus to get fish for the Kriegsmarine), the Nederlandschee Oostbaagger (Dutch East dredge workers, which used leased materials to do dredge work on the Dnieper river), de Nederlandsche Oostbaksteen (Literally translated as Dutch East brick but no clue what this could mean, possibly a building company), de Nederlandsche Oostrederij (Dutch  East shipping company), and de Nederlandsche Oost Handel Maatschappij (The Dutch East Trading Society, literally translated).

== End ==
The advancing Russians put a lot of pressure on the NOC. The Dutch farmers in the lands that the Russians were about to re-capture fled and people tried to move, but that was hard. On 28 December 1944 was Rost van Tonningen fired by Mussert (Leader of the NSB). After the liberation the NOC was liquidated and a trial was held against the most important employees of the NOC. Heerema was found not guilty. In 1981 a new trial started, because he came with the idea to use forced labourers for the NOC, but he passed away before anything happened.