Date of birth:

September 13th, 1906 (Monschau, Germany)

Date of death:

July 2nd, 1944 (Amsterdam, the Netherlands)

Buried on:

German War Cemetery Ysselsteyn
Plot: CT. Row: 10. Grave: 25.

Nationality:

Dutch

Lived in Amsterdam, St. Luciënsteeg 11. Married to Geertruida Stricker. Butcher. Roman Catholic. SS-Sturmmann and official at the Sicherheitspolizei. On 30 June 1944, Heinen was seriously injured in a shooting near the Rubensstraat 26 in Amsterdam. At that address, the German-Jewish emigrant Gerhard Joseph Badrian had an appointment with Betsy Wery. Badrian appeared there together with his resistance friend Annemarie Deij and illegal worker Frits Reinder Bovenhuis to discuss the establishment of a new office, for which Wery had made her home available. The partly Jewish Wery turned out to be a traitor and worked for the SD and the Devisenschutzkommando, which Badrian and the others did not know. Because Badrian knew that she sometimes had the forbidden roulette game played in her home, she felt somewhat threatened. She passed on the appointment to the SD. At the agreed time, a number of Sipo employees also arrived. When they were certain that the prey could be caught, they struck. That did not go smoothly. During the attempted arrest, Badrian was shot dead, but only after he himself had shot Heinen when he came in through the outside door after hearing the exchange of shots. Seriously wounded, Heinen was taken to the Luftwaffenlazaret in Amsterdam, where he died two days later. A courtyard in Amsterdam was named after Badrian, whose urn is interred in the War Graves Foundation's field of honour in Loenen, Gelderland, section E, no. 89. Bovenhuis was executed after his arrest. Annemarie Deij survived the women's concentration camp Ravensbrück. Betsy Wery was sentenced to life imprisonment by the Special Court in Amsterdam on 15 May 1948. In December 1957 she was pardoned and her sentence was commuted to twenty years' imprisonment, minus the sentence already served.

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