The fallen resistance people in Limburg

Egbert Wolf

Maastrichtse Gevelstenen

In 1937, Egbert Wolf from Oldebroek (Gelderland) was called up for military service. After his training he was assigned as a sergeant to the 10th Infantry Regiment at Ede. The 10th RI fought on the Grebbelinie between Veenendaal and the Utrecht-Arnhem railroad line. After his captivity, he was immediately assigned as a customs officer at the Caberg-Smeermaas border crossing. [1]
This was the border crossing between Caberg (Maastricht) and Smeermaas (Belgium). There he was Hulpcommies for import duties and excise taxes [2].
There was a strong anti-German sentiment in this border post. He belonged to the RAF group that called itself so out of sympathy for the British airmen they smuggled across the border. [3]
Other resistance groups also called them Tax Group, but for security reasons they didn’t like that. The group was busted by treason between November 28 and mid-December 1941. Egbert Wolf was arrested on December 1 or 2, 1941. Of his group, according to Cammaert (p.117), three members were arrested on December 1, 1941, and six on December 2, including Egbert Wolf. [3]
The sources apparently disagree on this point. One states:Arrested on 01.12.1941. [4]
And another one: Egbert Wolf was arrested in Maastricht on December 2, 1941. [5]

He arrived at Neuengamme concentration camp from the Amersfoort transit camp on October 16, 1942, where he was assigned camp number 11099." [4]
Colleagues Egbert Wolf and Douwe Verhagen lived with the J.H.N. Stols-Franssen family at Schildersplein 13 in Maastricht after taking up their posts. [1]
Stolpersteine are laid there for both of them. [6]
In the tax office of Maastricht is a relief of sandstone in honor of the five tax officials who fell in the resistance, including Egbert Wolf. [7]

Footnotes

1. struikelsteentjes-maastricht.nl Verzetsgroep Dresen/ Hage
2. Archief Oorlogsgravenstichting (@ Nationaal archief),
   Dossier • Egbert Wolf #1
3. Dr. F. Cammaert, Het Verborgen Front – Geschiedenis van de georganiseerde illegaliteit in de provincie Limburg tijdens de Tweede Wereldoorlog. Doctorale scriptie 1994, Groningen
   2. De eerste militair-civiele verzetsformaties, p.96 & p.117, Bijlage IV - Arrestaties in de groep-Dresen.
4. vriendenkringneuengamme.nl Egbert Wolf
5. oorlogsbronnen.nl: NIOD: Gevallenen ’40 -’45
6. 1. stolpersteine.app, Maastricht Schildersplein 13
   2. Stolpersteine, Wikipedia
   • Nederlands • Deutsch • English • Français • Português
7. Monument in het belastingkantoor Maastricht
8. mestreechonline.nl Verzetsstrijders Maastricht
9. Oorlogsgravenstichting.nl
10. https://forum.mestreechonline.nl/forum/mestreech-maastricht/geschiedenis-maastricht/tweede-wereldoorlog-en-bevrijding/1223-verzetsstrijders-maastricht