Date of birth:

March 27th, 1918 (Ridderkerk/South Holland, Netherlands)

Date of death:

March 8th, 1945 (Amsterdam/North Holland, Netherlands)

Buried on:

Dutch Honorary Cemetery Bloemendaal
Plot: 37. 

Nationality:

Dutch

Lived in Wervershoof, A 180. Son of Aart Lodder and Aaltje Wilschut. Married to Orphan Maria Kramer (one child). Sergeant in the Marechaussee Brigade Medemblik. Reformed. Member of the resistance under the pseudonym Aart and a member of the LO-Wervershoof and the OD.
Dressed in military police uniform, he transported identity cards and ration cards, and during curfews he took people in hiding to their shelters. His home also housed a listening post for the illegal newspaper De Nieuwspomp. The newspaper was also put together there. From September 1944 he became the leader of the Binnenlandse Strijdkrachten, Strijdend Gedeelte (Internal Armed Forces, Fighting Section). He also gave weapons instruction to members of the BS. Presumably as a result of betrayal, he was arrested by the Grüne Polizei on 25 January 1945 on his way to an illegal meeting. He ended up in Amsterdam via his own barracks in Medemblik and the detention centre in Alkmaar. As reprisal for the attack on SS-Befehlshaber Hanns Albin Rauter on 6 March 1945, he was executed by firing squad at Rozenoord along with 52 others.
‘He fought for his fatherland and died for his Christ,’ is written on his tombstone.
Lodder is commemorated on the monument on Raadhuisplein in Wervershoof.

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• Photo 1: Eerebegraafplaats Bloemendaal
• Photo 2: Arjo Eijgelsheim
• Oorlogsgravenstichting. Westfriesland in Oorlog '40-'45 "Verzet". De heer Jan Overduin, Roden. - Eerebegraafplaats Bloemendaal
  

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