Harmen van der Leek

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Harmen van der Leek (born February 27, 1895 in Amsterdam , † November 17, 1941 in Bloemendaal , North Holland ) was a Dutch teacher , magazine editor and victim of the Nazi dictatorship .

Life

Harmen van der Leek was the eldest son of ordinary people in the Enkhuizen community . His parents were Gerbrand van der Leek and Trijntje Aaij (on the tombstone Aay). Harmen's father was born in Enkhuizen. Harmen van der Leek lived in Amsterdam from birth, with the exception of the period from 1901 to 1916, when he lived with his parents on Staaleversgracht in Enkhuizen.

After elementary school he spent a few years in the office of Zaadhandel Sluis en Groot, where he met his future co-editor Hein de Bruin. According to De Bruin, Van der Leek had the typical Enkhuizer stiffness: not very spontaneous, but very reliable. Van der Leek later studied MO German; he became a teacher in Hilversum and then in Amsterdam.

Harmen married Elisabeth Boom (1906 to 1956) in Amsterdam in 1931, the daughter of Anthonius Jacobus Boom and Frederika Cornelia Munting.

In 1923 he was one of the founders of the litarian magazine “Opwaardensche Wegen” (upward streets) and was in charge of it until the end of 1940.

On November 17, 1941, he was executed by Germans for taking part in rescuing a British pilot who had crashed during World War II .

Works

  • Alone or with others: Book reviews, = Upward Roads, Volume 1–17
  • Harmen van der Leek's shortcoming (key lock), 1923–1924
  • Silent Ascent by HvdLeek, = Upward Roads Volume 8, 1930–1931

literature

  • K. ter Laan: Literary Dictionary for North and South , 1952
  • Yearbook of the Society for Dutch Literature , 2012
  • KH Heeroma: Cell letter in memory of Harmen van der Leek , = fire and wind (under Ps. Muus Jacobse), 1946
  • Hein de Bruin: Fragments of a lecture in memory of HvLeek
  • Various: Biographical data editors , = Upward Roads 1989
  • Dineke Colenbrander: Biographical data editors , = upward streets 1989

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ https://www.corkint.info/html/schrijvers_leek.htm
personal data
SURNAME Leek, Harmen van der
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Dutch teacher, magazine editor and victim of the Nazi dictatorship
DATE OF BIRTH February 27, 1895
PLACE OF BIRTH Amsterdam
DATE OF DEATH November 17, 1941
Place of death Bloemendaal , North Holland