- Cornelis van Geelkerken
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Cornelis van Geelkerken Personal details Born 19 March 1901
Sint-Jans-Molenbeek, BelgiumDied 29 March 1976 (aged 75)
Ede, NetherlandsPolitical party National Socialist Movement (NSB) Cornelis van Geelkerken (19 March 1901 in Sint-Jans-Molenbeek – 29 March 1976 in Ede) was co-founder of the Dutch National Socialist Movement.
Cornelis van Geelkerken was born in Sint-Jans-Molenbeek, Belgium. In the 1920s he gravitated toward extreme nationalism. Proposing an authoritarian, anti-democratic movement to Anton Mussert they formed the Nationaal-Socialistische Beweging. He became director of their youth corps, the Nationale Jeugdstorm. After the German invasion Geelkerken was appointed Inspector-General of the Nederlandsche Landwacht (home guard set up to combat the Resistance). After the war he was sentenced to life imprisonment but released in 1959. He died on 29 March 1976 in Ede.
See also
- Netherlands in World War II.
Works
- Voor Volk en Vaderland, Utrecht, 1943
References
- 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)
Political parties and groups People Jan Baars · Max Blokzijl · Henk Feldmeijer · Cornelis van Geelkerken · Robert van Genechten · Alfred Haighton · George Kettmann · Wouter Lutkie · Arnold Meijer · Anton Mussert · Ernst Herman van Rappard · Meinoud Rost van Tonningen · H. A. Sinclair de Rochemont · Daniël de Blocq van ScheltingaRelated articles Categories:- 1901 births
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