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Gulikers, Pieter Joseph Hubert

    Date of birth:
    March 13th, 1893 (Itteren/Limburg, Netherlands)
    Date of death:
    March 8th, 1945 (Amsterdam/North Holland, Netherlands)
    Buried on:
    Dutch Honorary Cemetery Bloemendaal
    Plot: 37. 
    Nationality:
    Dutch

    Biography

    Lived in Santpoort, Wulverderlaan 14. Son of Pieter Joseph Hubert Gulikers (furniture maker) and Maria Helena Hubertina Pieters. Married on 1 July 1920 in Velsen to Kniertje Gorter (six children). Office clerk at Twentsche Bank in Haarlem/accountant for Wehrmacht contractor. Roman Catholic. Member of the resistance.
    During the mobilisation of 1939-1940, he was squad commander of the Velser Vrijwillige Burgerwacht (Velser Volunteer Vigilance). In 1942, he became a member of the resistance group V-Leger. He helped people in hiding, provided illegal reading material, observed military objects in IJmuiden and collected money for the Nationaal Steunfonds (NSF). In mid-1944 he joined the contractor Johannes Anthonius van der Hijden (27 August 1905 Velsen), who did a lot of work for the Germans. In mid-September 1944 he became section commander of the Binnenlandse Strijdkrachten (Internal Armed Forces) in Santpoort-Dorp. Gulikers was arrested on 13 February 1945 after a revenge attack by his employer's former business partner. He was initially transferred to the police headquarters in IJmuiden. He was then transported to the detention centre on Weteringschans in Amsterdam. As reprisal for the attack on SS-Befehlshaber Hanns Albin Rauter on 6 March 1945 near Woeste Hoeve, he was executed by firing squad together with Van der Hijden and 51 others.
    In IJmuiden, the Gulikersstraat is named after him.

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