Adriaan Dijxhoorn

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Adriaan Dijxhoorn (1941)

Adriaan Qurinius Hendrik Dijxhoorn (born September 10, 1889 in Rotterdam , † January 22, 1953 ) was a Dutch politician.

Life and activity

After a career as an officer, Dijxhoorn was appointed Minister of Defense of the Netherlands in August 1939 in de Geer's second cabinet . In this position he was responsible for overseeing the mobilization of the Dutch army and the measures to slow down the German invasion in 1940. His tenure was marked by conflicts with the army commander in chief General Izaak H. Reijnders.

Due to the occupation of his homeland in April 1940, Dijxhoorn fled with the rest of the government to Great Britain and continued his office for a year in the Dutch government-in-exile in London . There he left the government in June 1941 and returned to active military service in 1941. In the following years he was a representative of the Dutch Army in Washington, DC

The National Socialist police officers classified Dijxhoorn as an important target after his escape: In the spring of 1940, the Reich Main Security Office in Berlin put him on the special wanted list GB , a directory of people who would be killed by the occupation forces in the event of a successful invasion and occupation of the British Isles by the Wehrmacht Subsequent SS special commands should be located and arrested with special priority.

1945 Dijxhoorn officiated as the executive Dutch chief of staff. Afterwards he was a member of the highest Dutch military court until his death.

Web links

Commons : Adriaan Dijxhoorn  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Entry on Dijxhoorn on the special wanted list GB (reproduced on the website of the Imperial War Museum in London) .
personal data
SURNAME Dijxhoorn, Adriaan
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Dijxhoorn, Adriaan Qurinius Hendrik (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Dutch politician
DATE OF BIRTH September 10, 1889
PLACE OF BIRTH Rotterdam
DATE OF DEATH January 22, 1953