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Cornelis van Geelkerken

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Cornelis van Geelkerken
Cornelis van Geelkerken in uniform
Inspector General of the Nederlandse Landwacht
In office
12 November 1943 – 1945
Preceded byOffice created
Succeeded byOffice abolished
Leader of the Nationale Jeugdstorm
In office
1 May 1934 – 1945
Preceded byOffice created
Succeeded byOffice abolished
Personal details
Born
Cornelis van Geelkerken

(1901-03-19)19 March 1901
Molenbeek-Saint-Jean, Belgium
Died29 March 1976(1976-03-29) (aged 75)
Ede, Netherlands
Political partyNational Socialist Movement (1931–1945)
Other political
affiliations
Nederlandsche Oranje-Nationalisten
Verbond van Actualisten
Spouse
Johanna Dorothea Eschauzier
(m. 1927)

Cornelis "Kees" van Geelkerken (Dutch pronunciation: [kɔrˈneːlɪs fɑŋ ˈɣeːlkɛrkə(n)];[a] 19 March 1901 – 29 March 1976) was a Dutch fascist political leader and Nazi collaborator.

Van Geelkerken was born in 1901 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 and Utrecht. Van Geelkerken co-founded the far-right National Socialist Movement in the Netherlands (NSB) with Anton Mussert in 1931. He was made the leader of the Nationale Jeugdstorm, the party's youth corps.

In 1943, during the German occupation of the Netherlands, Van Geelkerken was appointed Inspector-General of the Nederlandse Landwacht, a collaborationist paramilitary created by the Germans to combat the Dutch resistance. He was expelled from the NSB in early 1945 after a falling out with Mussert. After the war, he was tried in the Bijzonder Gerechtshof ("Special Court of Justice") and sentenced to life imprisonment, but was later released in 1959. He died in 1976 in Ede.

See also

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Works

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  • Voor Volk en Vaderland, Utrecht, 1943

Notes

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  1. ^ Van in isolation: [vɑn].

References

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  • 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)