Date of birth:

July 11th, 1888 (Amsterdam, Netherlands)

Date of death:

July 21st, 1972 (Zutphen/Gelderland, Netherlands)

Nationality:

Dutch

Nerve specialist by profession. During the Second War medical director of the psychiatric institution “Grote Graffel” in Leesten (now Zutphen) Was active in the medical resistance Medical Contact. Tried to protect his patients from the Germans and was arrested several times. When on 4 April 1945, during heavy fighting around the liberation of Zutphen and Warnsveld, the hospital was heavily shelled, he saved the lives of 1,400 patients and staff by risking his own life to contact the Canadians. Dressed in his white doctor's coat and carrying a white flag on his walking stick, he ran across the open field and jumping over trenches and encountered a Canadian soldier who put him in touch with a commanding officer. He is reported to have said: “you're killing all my patients” after which the shelling stopped.

After the war, he remained a renowned name in the world of psychiatry. On 21 July 1972, he was murdered in his home. Initially, it was thought that the murder could be linked to his medical past, but when the culprit was arrested in 1976, he was found to have been caught breaking into the house and then killed the doctor with scissors.

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