Date of birth:

November 5th, 1921 (Surabaya/Java, Dutch East Indies)

Date of death:

January 30th, 1945 (Utrecht, Netherlands)

Buried on:

Dutch Honorary Cemetery Bloemendaal
Plot: 10. 

Nationality:

Dutch

Ernst Dopheide studied at the Technical College (now TU) in Delft from 1940. Shortly after General Seyffardt's liquidation on 6 February 1943, he was arrested in a raid. He was transferred to camp Vught with approximately 600 other students from Delft, Amsterdam, Utrecht and Wageningen.
He was released after two months. However, he refused to sign the declaration of loyalty that the Germans demanded from students and found work in the chemical laboratory of the Rubberstichting.
At the end of September 1944, the intelligence and courier service Rolls Royce urgently needed extra staff. A member of the courier service who knew Dopheide asked him to do courier work between Gorinchem and Dordrecht. Dopheide soon proved himself to be a useful intelligence agent. He knew how to approach German soldiers and find out what they were up to.
After he had set up new intelligence groups in Gorinchem and the Betuwe region on his own initiative, he was given the task of reorganising other intelligence groups. He checked up on the groups every day, often travelling distances of 80 kilometres.
On 15 January 1945, Dopheide was arrested by members of the Feldgendarmerie, the German military police, during a break-in at a building belonging to the Ortskommandantur in Gorinchem. After being transferred to the prison in Utrecht, he was executed on 30 January 1945 at Fort Lunetten along with three other imprisoned Rolls Royce members and a fourth resistance fighter as reprisal for an act of sabotage on the railway line there.
At the family's request, Dopheide was initially buried in the Dutch Reformed cemetery in Voorhout. In April 1947, he was reburied in the cemetery of honour in Bloemendaal.

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• Photo 1: Eerebegraafplaats Bloemendaal
• Photo 2: Arjo Eijgelsheim
• - Overlijdensakte 463 d.d. 3 februari 1945 gemeente Utrecht. - Eerebegraafplaats Bloemendaal
  

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