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Contacts between people in hiding and the sub district leader, also called diver’s chiefs
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
Memorial stone for the resistance people Coenen and Francotte
† ✡ † 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
| The local contacts (so called duikhoofden, divers’ chiefs) were the contacts between the district leader and the people in hiding. There was one per parish in the Valkenburg subdistrict, and two in the town o Valkenburg itself. – 8 pers. | ||
| Caldenborg,
A. | ∗ 0000-00-00 † 0000-00-00 | L.O. - local contact - Houthem - survivor - “diver’s chief“ (local contact person) of the LO in Houthem More in our story Resistance in Valkenburg |
| Hendriks,
J. | ∗ 0000-00-00 † 0000-00-00 | L.O. - local contact - Berg en Terblijt - survivor - “diver’s chief“ Berg en Terblijt More in our story Resistance in Valkenburg |
| Horsmans,
Louis (Gerardus Aloysius Antonius) | ∗ 1918-02-03 Ulestraten † 2001-03-13 Maria-Hoop (gem. Echt) | L.O. - local contact - Houthem-St.Gerlach - survivor - Louis Horsmans was contact person (diver’s chief) for the LO in Houthem-St.Gerlach. [1.1] In addition, he became On the recommendation of Pierre Schunck, he became assistant of Heinrich Stahl … More in our story Resistance in Valkenburg http://www.biografischportaal.nl/persoon/35074235 https://www.parlement.com/id/vg09ll1tpgvt/g_a_a_louis_horsmans#p.overig |
| Horsmans,
Wim (Willem Bernard Jozef) | ∗ 1912-05-20 Ubachsberg † 1987-05-31 Heerlen | L.O. - local contact - priest - survivor - Vicar in Valkenburg 1938-1950. Contact person of the LO for people in hiding, together with the sexton Harie van Ogtrop, supported by J. Peusens and J. van de Aa. His last position: dean of Meerssen (1963-1975), where he is also buried. More in our story Resistance in Valkenburg |
| Laar,
van H.J.R. Jef | ∗ 1921-02-16 Stokhem † 2004-08-15 Margraten | L.O. - local contact - municipality - Margraten - survivor - In Het verborgen front (The Hidden Front), Dr Fred Cammaert writes about a local contact (duikhoofd or diver’s chief) of the L.O. in Margraten named J. van de Laar. [1] Nothing can be found about a person with that name. Even the surname Van de Laar is not listed in the municipal … More in our story Resistance in Valkenburg |
| Laeven,
Albert Hubert Albert | ∗ 1916-09-25 Schin op Geul † 2005-12-29 Schin op Geul | L.O. - local contact - Schin op Geul - survivor - Albert Laeven from Schin op Geul near Valkenburg worked in the drawing office of the mine Willem-Sophia [2] near Spekholzerheide during the war years. In the fall of 1942, he and his brother-in-law Gus Bosch placed two onderduikers (people in hiding) from Eindhoven with the miller Gus … More in our story Resistance in Valkenburg |
| Ogtrop,
van Harie | ∗ 1901-11-13 Hulsberg † 1989-10-26 Heerlen | L.O. - local contact - Valkenburg - survivor - |
| Schoenmakers,
F. | ∗ 0000-00-00 † 0000-00-00 | L.O. - local contact - Sibbe - survivor - “diver’s chief“ Sibbe More in our story Resistance in Valkenburg |