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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.
† ✡ † 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
The National Socialists, both of the Dutch NSB and the German NSDAP. – 4 pers. | ||
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. … |
Stahl,
Heinrich | ∗ 1902-09-12 Kohlscheid † 0000-00-00 | Heerlen - NSDAP - survivor - German mining engineer in Heerlen. He was married to a sister of Pierre Schunck. Worked at the coal mine already before the war and was also the director and co-owner of his father-in-law’s lime quarry in Geulhem. During the occupation, he became a member of the NSDAP (German Nazi Party) for … More in our story Resistance in Valkenburg |