Abraham pulse

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Abraham Puls in court, 1947
A Puls truck

Abraham Puls (born September 1, 1902 in Amsterdam , † 1975 ) was a Dutch entrepreneur during the Second World War . The colloquial verb "pulse" for clearing out apartments of deportees goes back to his name in Dutch .

Life

Abraham Puls ran a shipping company in Amsterdam. From 1934 he was a member of the NSB . The father of three children was regularly commissioned by the Einsatzstab Reichsleiter Rosenberg and the housekeeping registration office to clear the apartments of deported Jews and other victims of the National Socialists and to take away their belongings, and he got rich in the process. According to historian Loe de Jong , at least 29,000 Jewish homes have been cleared.

The " Anne Frank House " in Prinsengracht 263 , in the back of which the Frank , van Pels families and the dentist Fritz Pfeffer hid, was also "pulsed" a few days after the arrest of those in hiding.

After his arrest on May 7, 1945, Puls was brought to justice. A death sentence was passed against him on June 4, 1947, which was commuted to life imprisonment in 1949. This in turn was shortened to 24 years on May 25, 1959.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Barbara Beuys: Life with the enemy. Carl Hanser Verlag GmbH Co KG, 2012, ISBN 978-3-446-24071-1 ( limited preview in Google book search); according to other sources not until 1935.
  2. ↑ a b c d e Ewoud Sanders, Abraham Puls , September 24, 1990 at www.nrc.nl
  3. ↑ Christina Hemken, The Einsatzstab Reichsleiter Rosenberg and the "M-Action" on provenienzforschung.info
  4. ^ Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG: Western and Northern Europe June 1942 - 1945. Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG, 2014, ISBN 978-3-486-85552-4 , p. 378 ( limited preview in Google book search )
  5. ↑ Collectieve penalties for the de bezetter toepaste. Ton van Lier, referenced by: Het Koninkrijk der Nederlanden in de Tweede Wereldoorlog , by Leo de Jong.
  6. ↑ Tanja von Fransecky: They wanted to kill me, for that they had to have me first. Lukas Verlag, 2016, ISBN 978-3-867-32256-0 , p. 282 ( limited preview in the Google book search)
  7. ↑ Abraham Puls on www.dedokwerker.nl
personal data
SURNAME Pulse, Abraham
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Dutch entrepreneur
DATE OF BIRTH September 1, 1902
PLACE OF BIRTH Amsterdam
DATE OF DEATH 1975