Cornelis van Geelkerken
Cornelis van Geelkerken (Dutch pronunciation: [kɔrˈneːləs fɑŋ ˈɣeːlkɛrkə(n)][1] 19 March 1901 – 29 March 1976) was a Belgian-born Dutch fascist political leader.
Cornelis van Geelkerken | |
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_in_uniform.jpg.webp) Cornelis van Geelkerken in uniform | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 19 March 1901 Molenbeek-Saint-Jean, Belgium |
| Died | 29 March 1976 (aged 75) Ede, Netherlands |
| Political party | National Socialist Movement |
| Other political affiliations | Nederlandsche Oranje-Nationalisten Verbond van Actualisten |
| Spouse(s) | Johanna Dorothea Eschauzier
(m. 1927) |
Van Geelkerken was born to a Dutch family in Molenbeek-Saint-Jean, Belgium, and grew up in Utrecht. He gravitated toward fascism in the 1920s while working as a municipal employee in Zeist. Van Geelkerken co-founded the far-right National Socialist Movement in the Netherlands with Anton Mussert in 1931. He was made the leader of the Nationale Jeugdstorm, the party's youth corps.
After the German invasion in 1940, Van Geelkerken was appointed Inspector-General of the Nederlandsche Landwacht, a collaborationist paramilitary created by the Germans to combat the Dutch resistance. After the war, he was sentenced to life imprisonment but was released in 1959. He died on 29 March 1976 in Ede.
See also
Works
- Voor Volk en Vaderland, Utrecht, 1943
References
- Van in isolation: [vɑn].
- Nazi Rule and Dutch Collaboration: The Netherlands under German Occupation, 1940-45 by Gerhard Hirschfeld (ISBN 0-85496-146-1)
- Dutch Under German Occupation: 1940-1945 by Werner Warmbrunn (ISBN 0-8047-0152-0)
- The Patriotic Traitors: A History of Collaboration in German-Occupied Europe, 1940-45 by David Littlejohn (ISBN 0-434-42725-X)
- Biographical Dictionary of the Extreme Right Since 1890 edited by Philip Rees, 1991, (ISBN 0-13-089301-3)
