Ferdinand de Greve

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Ferdinand de Grève (born January 19, 1910 in Schaerbeek ; † 1980 ) was a Belgian civil servant and resistance fighter against National Socialism , a prisoner in the Buchenwald concentration camp , secretary of the Belgian Buchenwald Society and a member of the General Council of the International Buchenwald-Dora Committee and Command .

Life

De Greve was in his home official in the civil service . On May 8, 1944, he was brought into the Buchenwald concentration camp as a political prisoner and was given the prisoner number 49053. He was assigned to the "camp protection" command and was able to help rescue numerous prisoners. He became a member of the Belgian military section of the International Military Organization (IMO).

When the Nazi rule was eliminated, he returned to Belgium, became secretary of the Belgian Buchenwald Society and a member of the General Council of the International Buchenwald-Dora and Commands Committee.

Literature and media

  • IDFBW000956 Documentary GDR, 1974: AND EVERYONE HAD A NAME. ETTERSBERG (BEECH FOREST). [AT], director: Gerhard Jentsch , production: DEFA-Studio for short films, Potsdam-Babelsberg; for the Buchenwald National Memorial, Weimar
  • Author collective: Buchenwald. Reminder and obligation. Documents and reports. German publisher d. Sciences, Berlin 1983, p. 754.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Author collective: Buchenwald ... 1983, p. 441.
personal data
SURNAME De Grève, Ferdinand
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Belgian civil servant and resistance fighter
DATE OF BIRTH January 19, 1910
PLACE OF BIRTH Schaerbeek
DATE OF DEATH 1980