Date of birth:

August 10th, 1923 (Amersfoort/Utrecht, Netherlands)

Date of death:

September 8th, 1944 (Abbenes/North Holland, Netherlands)

Buried on:

Dutch Honorary Cemetery Bloemendaal
Plot: 40. 

Nationality:

Dutch

Lived at 78 Marsstraat in Haarlem. Son of Tijmen Hoekstra (3 January 1893 Nijelamer) and Maria Antonia Henrica van der Strigt. Unmarried. Student. Roman Catholic. Member of the resistance under the pseudonym Dick. He was a contributor to the illegal newspaper De Patriot, carried out courier work, took part in a raid on the police station on Raadhuisstraat in Heemskerk to free five prisoners and was also a member of the KP-Haarlemmermeer since June 1944. Five armed KP members were to move into the farm of farmer/bulb grower Klaas van Reeuwijk in Abbenes to guard the ring dyke at the De Leeghwater pumping station. The occupying forces had placed explosives in four places to destroy the ring dyke and flood the Haarlemmermeer. Albert Hoekstra went to the farm on 8 September 1944 with Johan van der Hulst (14 March 1925 Hilversum) and Bernardus Jacobus Lenderink (7 May 1918 Haarlem). Just as Van der Hulst was about to pick up the other two KP members, two members of the Landwacht (a paramilitary organisation) turned up, wanting to confiscate the farmer's car, which was ‘hiding’ on the property. They discovered some of the weapons that the men had brought with them and arrested Van der Hulst. Hoekstra and Lenderink, who had hidden in the pigsty, were discovered much later. After an interrogation, the Germans shot Ernst Wehner (18 May 1903), who was himself shot on 10 March 1945 in Amsterdam, Mathias Schmitz and Theodor Fischer of the Sipo-Aussendienststelle in Amsterdam, each killing one of the resistance fighters. Hoekstra was hit by a second shot. The three KP members are honoured with a monument on the spot where the farm was located at the time. Hoekstra's father had been executed by firing squad in Fort de Bilt three days earlier.

Hoekstra was cremated on 9 September 1944 in Driehuis-Velsen. The urn containing his ashes, registered under number 16200, was originally interred in a general niche in Westerveld crematorium. On 10 December 1947, it was reburied in plot 40 of the War Cemetery in Bloemendaal.

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• Photo 1: Eerebegraafplaats Bloemendaal
• Photo 2: Arjo Eijgelsheim
• Peter H. Heere en Arnold Th. Vernooij, De Eerebegraafplaats te Bloemendaal, SDU Uitgevers, Den Haag, 2005; Nationaal Archief, Den Haag, Bureau/Sectie Gravendienst van de Afdeling Sociale Zaken van het Ministerie van Oorlog/Defensie, Dienst Identificatie en Berging (DIB) van de Koninklijke Landmacht, nummer toegang 2.13.5220, inventarisnummer 262 (Lijst van gefusilleerden e.a., die tijdens de oorlog 1940-1945 in het crematorium te Velsen zijn verast); - Eerebegraafplaats Bloemendaal
  

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