HA Sinclair de Rochemont
Hugues Alexandre Sinclair de Rochemont (born January 6, 1901 in Hilversum , † March 13, 1942 near Grisi , Soviet Union ) was a Dutch fascist and collaborator with the Germans during the Second World War .
During his studies in Indology at the University of Leiden he met the right-wing professor Gerardus Johannes Petrus Josephus Bolland and in 1924, together with Alfred Haighton, founded the country's first fascist party, the Verbond van Actualisten . This group stood for election in 1925 and received only 0.08% of the vote.
He also worked as a journalist for De Vaderlander . In 1927 he began publishing De Bezem (The Besen), a fascist journal aimed at members of the working class. In 1930 he ended the collaboration with Haighton.
He teamed up with the Belgian Joris Van Severen. In 1940 he joined the Dutch National Front and the Nationaal-Socialistische Nederlandsche Arbeiderspartij .
Sinclair volunteered for the Dutch Waffen SS and died on the Eastern Front near Grisi in the Soviet Union.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d e Philip Rees , Biographical Dictionary of the Extreme Right Since 1890 , 1991
- ^ RJB Bosworth, The Oxford Handbook of Fascism , Oxford University Press, 2009, p. 454
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|---|---|
| SURNAME | Sinclair de Rochemont, HA |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Sinclair de Rochemont, Hugues Alexandre (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Dutch fascist and collaborator with the Germans |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 6, 1901 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Hilversum |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 13, 1942 |
| Place of death | near Grisi , Soviet Union |