• Nationaal-Socialistische Beweging (NSB)

Date of birth:

October 4th, 1881 (Djokjakarta, Dutch Indies)

Date of death:

January 31st, 1945 (De Rijp/Noord-Holland, The Netherlands)

Nationality:

Dutch

Van Baak grew up in the Dutch East Indies and returned to the Netherlands after his father's death. His family started the coffee company Soember Agoeng, where he later became a commissioner. He studied engineering in Delft and, from 1926, headed the electrical engineering firm Aramatura.

Before the war, he was active in the fascist Verdinaso and joined the NSB (Dutch National Socialist Movement) in 1940. In 1944, the Germans appointed him mayor of Purmerend and Edam.

After a resistance action in which three young people were liberated, Van Baak wanted their parents arrested. He also possessed the names of local resistance members. This led to his assassination: on January 30, 1945, he was arrested along with alderman Jan de Boer and executed the next day by the resistance in De Rijp.

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• - Liquidatie van Baak en de Boer [1945]

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