biography
| name: |
Geelkerken, Kees (Cornelis) van
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pronunciation:
(khaylkerken)
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| male
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| lived:
| (1901–76)
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| biography:
| Dutch politician, born in Sint-Jansmolenbeek, near Brussels, Belgium. A clerk in the provincial registry at Utrecht, in 1931 he co-founded the National Socialist Movement (NSB) with Mussert and had to resign from his civil service post. He became Mussert's second in command, raised a youth organization, the ‘Jeugdstorm’, and was appointed Inspector General of the Landwacht (at first Landstorm Nederland) in 1943. He quarrelled with Mussert, who thought he did not stand out for sufficient independence regarding the German SS. After the war he received a life sentence, but was freed in 1959. |
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