Persons

People who played a role during WW2 in and around Valkenburg. Most of them appear in the resistance story about Valkenburg. In that case, click on More in our story Resistance in Valkenburg next to that name.
This list is far from being complete.
Read also 1940-1945 - The Germans killed in action in Valkenburg-Houthem

† ✡ † Jews Holocaust Allied soldiers USA RAF NL sold Verzet initial resistance L.O. K.P. municipality local contacts couriers occasional resistance Gr. Smit people in hiding Valkenburg+ Valkenburg Berg en Terblijt Schin op Geul IJzeren Sibbe Margraten Houthem-St.Gerlach Geulhem Hulsberg Houthem Klimmen Meerssen Heerlen police priests NSB / NSDAP Germans killed in action in Valkenburg-Houthem

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Crasborn, Jacobus Reinier Peter Jacques	∗ 1916-04-12 Ittervoort † 1987-11-26 Heerlen	dutch soldier - K.P. - survivor - Jacques Crasborn, from Ittervoort, decided after four years of high school to study for mine surveyor. On January 1, 1940, he was employed in this profession at the Oranje Nassau IV mine. His school friend L.J. de Graaf, head of the administration of the same mine, involved Crasborn in the … More in our story Resistance in Valkenburg https://nimh-beeldbank.defensie.nl/foto-s/detail/3241bc5e-eb18-11df-a391-13966e870614
Goossen, Theo J.M. Harry van Benthum	∗ 1917-10-20 Bergh † 2000-02-06 Heerlen	L.O. - Kerkrade - survivor - Leader of the subdistrict Kerkrade of the resistance organisation LO. Worked together the Auβenministerium (a group that repatriated students forced to work in Germany to the Netherlands). After the arrest of the provincial L.O. leaders in June 1944 in Weert, he led the L.O. district of … More in our story Resistance in Valkenburg https://kerkradewiki.nl/kerkrade/theo-goossen/ https://www.berghapedia.nl/index.php?title=Goossen,_Theodorus_Johannes_Maria
Hens, Piet (Petrus Antonius)	∗ 1888-08-27 Zwolle † 1971-04-26 Utrecht	mayor - Valkenburg - survivor - Was mayor of both Valkenburg and Houthem since 1917 and from 1935 also of Oud-Valkenburg. On October 1, 1940, so in the first year of the German occupation, the municipality of Valkenburg-Houthem came into being with the merger of Houthem, Oud-Valkenburg, Schin op Geul and Valkenburg. Hens remained … More in our story Resistance in Valkenburg https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lijst_van_burgemeesters_van_Valkenburg-Houthem
Kooten, van Bep	∗ 1914-12-12 Laren N.H. † 1979-06-20 Hilversum	dutch soldier - L.O. - K.P. - Klimmen - survivor - Bep (B.J.C.) van Kooten, temporarily leader of the LO Klimmen and, for the sub-district of Valkenburg, contact person to the KP (“Knokploegen”, armed groups), sabotage specialist of the KP. Towards the end of the war, the rayon (subdistrict) of Klimmen worked closely together with the rayon of … More in our story Resistance in Valkenburg https://nimh-beeldbank.defensie.nl/foto-s/?mode=gallery&view=horizontal&q=Bep%20van%20Kooten&rows=1&page=1&fq%5B%5D=search_s_mediatype:%22Foto%27s%22
Rennes / Renesse, van Godert	∗ 0000-00-00 Heteren † 1903-02-16	police - Valkenburg - NSB - survivor - On the genealogy page of the Van Rennes family we read that both forms of the surname occur. Renesse however is the old version. Before the war the Netherlands was very heavily … More in our story Resistance in Valkenburg
Savelberg, Alphons Hendrikus Funs	∗ 1917-11-06 Valkenburg † 1944-09-14 Valkenburg	Valkenburg - NSB - war victim - Landwachter (Country guard, a kind of auxiliary police). He was shot by a group of revengeful boys who called themselves OD on September 14, 1944. They thought they were acting by order of the Americans. More in our story Resistance in Valkenburg
Schmalbach, (Godfried Jozef) Paul	∗ 1897-09-16 Vaals † 1952-09-18 Vaals	mayor - Valkenburg - NSB - survivor - 1942-1943 mayor of Beek, 1943-1944 mayor Valkenburg-Houthem. His predecessor and successor was Piet Hens.  …
Schunck, Pierre Paul Simons	∗ 1906-03-24 Heerlen † 1993-02-02 Kerkrade	L.O. - Heerlen - Valkenburg - survivor - Founder and leader of the “rayon” (subdistrict) of the L.O. in Valkenburg, under the alias of “Paul”. He was also a member of the ID18 intelligence group, which belonged to the Heerlen district of the LO. After the war he gave … More in our story Resistance in Valkenburg
Smits, Gerard Frank Frank	∗ 1919-08-29 Heerlen † 1944-04-04 Utrecht	early resistance - Hulsberg - war victim - During the mobilization he was a cornet (= ensign) in the mounted artillery. Later, as a law student, he refused to sign the declaration of loyalty to the Germans and joined the resistance movement. He mapped activities of the Germans at Dutch airfields and passed them on to the allies. [1] He was … More in our story Resistance in Valkenburg https://oorlogsgravenstichting.nl/personen/143222/gerard-frank-smits