Bartholomeus van Ommeren

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Bartholomeus van Ommeren , nickname "Bart" (born April 5, 1859 in Ingen, municipality of Buren (Gelderland) , † September 6, 1907 ibid), was a Dutch activist, editor and anarchist .

Bart van Ommeren's father was a wealthy farmer , little is known about his mother, Helena Roelanda van Ommeren. Van Ommeren lived in Tiel from 1872 to 1876 and later moved to Amsterdam , where he worked as a typist ("Klerk") in a notary's office. Until 1887 he was registered as an office worker with the residents' registration office. During this time he began to be politically active.

SDB poster (Amsterdam department)

He was secretary of the Nederlandsche Bond voor Algemeen Kies- en Stemrecht ("Dutch Federation for General Suffrage"), Amsterdam Department and became a member of the Sociaal-Democratische Bond ("Social Democratic Bund", SDB), which was also temporarily the Dutch anarchist Hendrik Ebo Kaspers belonged to.

Bart van Ommeren, who appeared as a propagandist for anarchism, was one of the first socialists in the Netherlands to be prosecuted for their ideology. Because he had subscribed to the journal Freiheit published by Johann Most - a "foreign socialist reading" ( buitenlandse socialistische lectuur ) - he was suspected by the police and was monitored until there was enough evidence to bring him to court.

The decisive factor for van Ommeren's arrest in May 1885 was probably one of his letters to Johann Most from April 1885, which he had passed on to Josef Peukert , who was in contact with anarchists from Belgium, mainly from Germany. Van Ommeren was charged with libel of majesty for having made a so-called proclamation from King Willem III. should have circulated, according to which this would have withdrawn from his throne in favor of the people. Despite insufficient evidence, van Ommeren was sentenced to one year imprisonment, which he served in Groningen prison from January 1886 to January 1887.

PC de Ruijter (1855–1889), known as a poet and author of the Dutch labor movement, wrote a poem about it with the words “Afscheidsgroet, aan B. van Ommeren, bij zijne veroordeeling tot 1 jaar celstraf”, ( farewell to B. van Ommeren , when sentenced to one year in prison ), which, with a portrait of van Ommeren, appeared shortly after the verdict. In 1887 de Ruijter wrote "Welkomstgroet, aan onzen Vriend B. van Ommeren, bij zijne terugkomst uit de cellulaire gevangenis" . (“Welcome to our friend B. van Ommeren on his release from prison”).

After his release from prison, Van Ommeren lectured at various SDB sections. He moved to The Hague and became a second accountant at Coöperatieve Broodbakkerij (" Bread Bakers' Cooperative "), for which Frans Drion also worked, and worked for the consumer association De Volharding . Under the influence of van Ommeren, Johannes Methöfer , F. Drion and H. van Bloppoel , among others , had become anarchists. He later opened a café in The Hague. In addition, van Ommeren was editor of the magazine De Vrije Pers ("The Free Press") in 1887 , which was supported by the Dutch anarchist Ferdinand Domela Nieuwenhuis . In June 1888 he was dismissed from De Volharding , allegedly because of austerity measures. The dismissal led to great discussions within the cooperative. Some employees organized a financial aid campaign and van Ommeren was finally employed part-time at De Volharding . From 1894 to 1896 he lived in Amsterdam and in 1896 moved to Ingen, his birthplace, where he died eleven years later.

literature

Books:

  • B. Bymholt: Divorce of the workers movement in Nederland. Uitgeverij SL Van Looy, 1894. Section Algemeen Kiesrecht congressen , p. 267
  • Martin Schouten: De socialen zijn in aantogt: de Nederlandse arbeidersbewegunging in de negentiende eeuw . Pp. 211 and 225, Bond voor Algemeen Kies en Stemrecht . Uitgeverij van Gennep, 1976. ISBN 90-60122-48-8
  • P. de Rooy: A revolution that went on: Domela Nieuwenhuis en het Palingoproer . P. 29. Uitgeverij Fibula-Van Dishoeck, 1971. ISBN 978-90-22830-54-3

Magazines:

  • Tijdschrift voor Nederlandse taal- en letterkunde , Volumes 77–78.
  • PJ Meertens: Ommeren (Bart van) . In: Mededelingenblad No. 16, November 1959, pp. 2-3

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Author: PJ Meertens, Johanna M. Welcker . Biography about B. van Ommeren. Originally published in Biographical Woordenboek van het Socialisme en de Arbeidersbewegung in Nederland (BWSA 2, 1987. pp. 104-106). In the IISG (Amsterdam)
  2. ↑ See on this: Tijdschrift voor Nederlandse taal-en letterkunde. Volumes 77-78. Uitgever EJ Brill, 1960. Quote: “Bart van Ommeren (1859-1907) was geen 'jongeman uit het volk', zoals Erens writes, maar de zoon van een welgestelde boer uit Lienden in de Betuwe. Hij was in Amsterdam notarisklerk .... "(" Bart van Ommeren (1859−1907) was not a 'young man from the people', as Erens wrote, but the son of a wealthy farmer .... ")
  3. ↑ Cf. on this: Martin Schouten: De socialen zijn in aantogt: de Nederlandse arbeidersbewing in de negentiende eeuw . Pp. 211 and 225, "Bond voor Algemeen Kies en Stemrecht"
  4. ↑ See on this: B. Bymholt: Geschiedenis der arbeidersbewegung in Nederland . Among other things, the section “Algemeen Kiesrecht congressen”, p. 267
  5. ↑ See this: P. de Rooy: Een revolutie die voorbij went . P. 29. Quotation: "Hoewel het wettig bewijs werd geleverd - twee rechercheurs bleven volhouden dat ze Van Ommeren hadden zien plakken - bleven er gaten, onnauwkeurigheden en twijfels in de bewijsvoering over .." ("Although the legal proof was provided - two detectives claimed that they had seen van Ommeren - there remained inaccuracies and doubts in the evidence ... ")
personal data
SURNAME Ommeren, Bartholomeus van
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ommeren, Bart van
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Dutch anarchist
DATE OF BIRTH April 5, 1859
PLACE OF BIRTH Ingen (Netherlands)
DATE OF DEATH September 6, 1907
Place of death Ingen (Netherlands)