Han Hollander

Han Hollander (1938)

Radio report with Han Hollander: Soccer match Belgium – Netherlands 1935

March 11, 1928: AVRO director Willem Vogt (left) and Hollander on the roof of the Amsterdam Olympic Stadium

Hartog "Han" Hollander (born October 5, 1886 in Deventer ; † July 9, 1943 in the Sobibor extermination camp ) was the first sports reporter on Dutch radio .

biography

Han Hollander was one of eight children of the Jewish Hollander family. Both his father, a second-hand dealer, and his uncle, a market vendor, were articulate merchants, a talent that Hollander apparently inherited. In 1902 he and his brother Karel were among the founders of the Go Ahead Eagles Deventer football club , for which he also came up with the name; he himself was nicknamed The Duke (from Hartog ). After graduating from Hogereburgerschool - unusual for a young man from his class - in 1904 he worked for the Hollandsche IJzeren Spoorweg-Maatschappij , which meant a considerable social advancement for him; he also wrote articles for Het Sportblad . In 1921 he left his well-paid post on the railroad and became deputy head of sports at Telegraaf . At the beginning of his journalistic career, he changed his actual first name Hartog to Han , because it sounds "more Dutch".

Willem Vogt , who later became director of AVRO , was one of his comrades during Hollander's military service . When Vogt was looking for someone for the first sports broadcasts for the Dutch radio, he remembered Hollander and how vividly he could tell about sports. On March 11, 1928, the first transfer took place with Hollander's participation; it was an international soccer match between the Netherlands and Belgium in the Nederlandsch Sportpark on Amstelveenseweg in Amsterdam . This broadcast was such a success that Hollander subsequently commented on more than 50 international matches on the radio, which made him extremely popular in the Netherlands in the 1930s. A plaque at the Olympic Stadium in Amsterdam reminds of this first transmission with Hollander; at the 50th on March 22, 1938 he was particularly honored.

Hollander also reported on other sports such as swimming and athletics . After 1930 he presented the radio show Sportpraatje . In 1936 he reported from the Olympic Games in Berlin . He was received by Adolf Hitler and received a certificate signed by Adolf Hitler , like all those who, from the regime's point of view, had contributed to the success of the event.

On May 14, 1940, the Dutch government capitulated after the German Wehrmacht attacked the country; the next day, the AVRO was taken over by the German propaganda . On May 21, 1940, Willem Vogt dismissed Han Hollander and other Jewish AVRO employees; he broke off personal contact with his friend Hollander. The last broadcast with his participation was broadcast on May 16, 1940. Vogt later stated that he did not want to "offend" the Germans. This approach by Vogt led to controversial discussions after the war.

Since Hollander had the document signed by Hitler, he believed that nothing could happen to him and therefore did not go into hiding at first. At the insistence of friends, he finally hid in Vaassen with his wife . When he heard that his daughter had been arrested, he returned; the entire family was arrested and taken to Westerbork transit camp .

Due to the fame of Hollander, the family was housed in the nearby Kamp Hooghalen , where the guards lived, and Hollander was entrusted with administrative tasks. Han Hollander and his wife felt they were “something better” and listed them as such; other camp inmates later described him as “unfriendly” and “conceited”. The Hollanders also received visits from friends in the camp. But during a quarrel with a German Jewess, Hollander's wife Leentje slipped fatal words: “He komt nog wel een other tijd. We zullen jullie Rotmoffen dan wel krijgen. Many other Hollanders think here, maar ze zeggen het niet, althans waar Duitse joden bij zijn. " because German Jews are among them. ”These words were brought to the camp commandant, who thereupon ordered the deportation of the Hollander family to Sobibor. There she was murdered immediately after her arrival on July 9, 1943. The well-known Dutch conductor Jacob Hamel , who, like Hollander, had been dismissed by Vogt at AVRO in May 1940, sat in the same transport and was also immediately murdered.

In the Colmschate district of Deventer , a course near the Sportcentrum de Scheg is named after Han Hollander. On May 14, 2009, Stolpersteine ​​were laid for Han Hollander and his wife Leentje Hollander-Smeer on the Amstelkade in Amsterdam . The initiative came from AVRO and the management of the Olympic Stadium in Amsterdam .

Nico Scheepmaker portrayed Han Hollander in his football book Het Krankzinnige kwartiertje (1978).

Web links

Commons : Han Hollander  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Hartog Hollander. In: joodsmonument.nl. Retrieved October 17, 2016 (Dutch). 
• JJ van Herpen: Hollander, Hartog (1886–1943). Biographical Woordenboek van Nederland, November 12, 2013, accessed October 17, 2016 . 

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d e} J.J. van Herpen: Hollander, Hartog (1886–1943). Biographical Woordenboek van Nederland, November 12, 2013, accessed October 17, 2016 . 
2. ↑ ^{a b c} Otto van Huffelen: Han Hollander, sportverslaggever. In: Etty Hillesum Centrum. Retrieved October 17, 2016 . 
3. ↑ De eerste voetbalwedstrijd op de Nederlandse radio ( Memento of the original from April 2, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Sportgeschiedenis.nl, March 11, 2015.  
4. ↑ Exposition about the AVRO broadcasting corporation. In: terras.tv. August 1, 2004, accessed October 18, 2016 . 
5. ↑ ^{a b} Max Dohle: Vermoord in Sobibor. Han Hollander. In: historiek.net. July 11, 2016, accessed October 17, 2016 (Dutch). 
6. ↑ ^{a b} Fred Lammers: Topverslaggever Han Hollander what uses onvriendelijk / Radio vooraf. In: trouw.nl. Retrieved October 17, 2016 (Dutch). 
7. ↑ Thomas Leeflang: Zestig jaar geleden stopte de grand guignolachtige 'zuivering' van Hilversum 1 en 2. Retrieved on October 18, 2016 . 
8. ↑ Sportgeschiedenis.nl - de alternatieve bron voor sportnieuws. (No longer available online.) In: sportgeschiedenis.nl. Archived from the original on October 17, 2016 ; Retrieved October 17, 2016 (Dutch). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.