Date of birth:

(Maastricht, the Netherlands)

Nationality:

Dutch

Francois Hubert Jaegers was a notorious war criminal who handed over several people to the Gestapo during the war by pretending to be in hiding. He managed to escape from the authorities in October 1945. Later the death penalty would be demanded against him by Baron van Voorst tot Voorst. Ultimately, he would be sentenced to 15 years in prison in 1946. The court considered it proven that he was a confidential counselor of the S.D. at the time of the occupation. worked and lent himself to practicing the profession as an agent provocateur.

In December 1943, Maastricht resident F.H. Jaegers was arrested after it was leaked that he had involved Miss Wolfs in an attempt to flee to England. R. Nitsch put his detainee under heavy pressure and found out what Wolfs did and who she worked with in the Netherlands. Apparently Jaegers knew something about the group in Slenaken, because in early 1944 he appeared on the scene and asked a random farmer about a customs officer who just as he had served as a sergeant in the May days of 1940. The farmer could not help him. This meant that Jaegers' role in Slenaken was over. He achieved better results in 's-Gravenvoeren. On Nitsch's instructions, he cycled to the Belgian border town to visit Miss Wolfs, followed in a car by the Sipo member, his Dutch helper C.M.W. Schut and driver J. Bosch. Wolfs turned out to be at home. She didn't trust the thing and fled. When the Sipo officers arrived at the house a little later, they found no one home. However, Wolfs was arrested shortly afterwards by a German customs officer from the Slenaken post.

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• - Het verborgen front. Geschiedenis van de georganiseerde illegaliteit in de Provincie Limburg tijdens de Tweede Wereldoorlog
  - G.A.M. Archief Commissaris van Politie, P.R.A.-Maastricht, nr. 916 (1945): verklaring R.H.G. Nitsch inzake F.H. Jaegers.
  - C.A.B.R. Dossier F.H. Jaegers