Date of birth:

October 20th, 1897 (Geestemünde/Bremen, Germany)

Date of death:

1966 (Bremen/Bremen, Germany)

Buried on:

German War Graves Osterholzer Friedhof Bremen

Nationality:

German

Fietje Bellmer was the oldest German at the Scholtenhuis. He had also served there the longest, having been there since May 29th, 1940. Because of his age, he automatically served as Haase's deputy when he was absent.
Bellmer was a simple man from a family of bargemen with no special education. He had been wounded during the First World War. Veterans commanded respect, and partly because of this, Bellmer enjoyed a certain prestige. Bellmer, on Haase's orders, coordinated the Silbertanne actions, in which anti-German Dutch people were shot in reprisal for liquidated NSB members. Under his leadership, 22 people were killed as Silbertanne victims. He also played a leading role in the mass executions just before the liberation, in which nearly 40 prisoners were murdered. Yet, according to the testimonies of both SD members and prisoners, Bellmer was not a cruel man who abused people. Colleague Bouman said of him: "As long as Fietje got his food and drink and a girlfriend every now and then, he was fine."
Sentenced to death, commuted to life imprisonment by the Special Court of Cassation.
(Source: War and Resistance Center Groningen)

Involved with: Jan Dijkstra, Dr. Engbertus Roelfsema, Arend Boldewijn, De Vries,
Taeke Schuilinga, Jan Nienhuis (Police Inspector, in hiding after the attack on Elsinga), Riekus Pot, Pot Sr.,
Source: Notes for History, no. 104. RIOD, p. 4

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