Date of birth:

December 20th, 1892 (Breda, the Netherlands)

Date of death:

May 3rd, 1943 (the Netherlands)

Buried on:

Dutch Field of Honour Loenen

Nationality:

Dutch

Wilhelmus Adrianus Hommel was executed by the Germans on 3 May 1943 because he and some colleagues in the printing works where he worked had responded to resistance calls for a nationwide strike. The management of the in Rotterdam based printing works had given the Germans a list bearing the names of the strikers who worked in the printing works. That same day, the six people were arrested and taken to the office of the SD in Rotterdam. Of the six, two were sentenced to death, including Willem Hommel. The exact place of death and the burial location is unknown. Presumably the men where together with some other resistance fighters executed on the Waalsdorpervlakte. Their bodies were never found. Willem Hommel is therefore not buried at the Dutch War Cemetery in Loenen, he is however remembered there in the No. 36 Commemorative Book.

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• Photo 1: TracesOfWar.com
• Photo 2: Eric vd Reek
• - Mortuary card.
  - Erepeleton Waalsdorp
  - Oorlogsgravenstichting
  

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