• Den Haag in de Tweede Wereldoorlog

Date of birth:

January 13th, 1916 (The Hague/South Holland, Netherlands)

Date of death:

November 6th, 1941 (Wassenaar (Waalsdorpervlakte), Netherlands)

Buried on:

Dutch Honorary Cemetery Bloemendaal
Plot: 39. 

Nationality:

Dutch

Lived in The Hague. Unmarried. Sergeant in the military police in Broek op Langedijk/public prosecutor's office in The Hague. Evangelical Lutheran. Member of the resistance under the pseudonym Blonde Henk.
In May 1940 he was still a professional soldier with the rank of sergeant-capitular. After the Dutch army's capitulation, he entered the service of the military police and subsequently ended up with the public prosecutor's police force of the court in The Hague. Member of the resistance belonging to the OD. Among other things, he helped people in hiding and, in his military police uniform, he brought allied pilots over the border and in the summer of 1944 he became a member of the KP. He was involved in raids on a distribution office in Doorn, a cash truck in The Hague, the Akkerbouwcentrale in The Hague and a boat loaded with ammunition and food for Germany. He also took part in the arson attack on the glider factory H. Pander & Zn in Rijswijk, South Holland.
On 12 October 1944, the Sicherheitspolizei raided the ‘resistance address’ Laan van Nieuw Oost-Indië in The Hague after a betrayal. Dozens of people were arrested here, including Gottlieb and his fiancée. After being transferred to the Oranjehotel prison in Scheveningen, he was executed by firing squad on the Waalsdorpervlakte on 6 November 1944 along with several other members of his goon squad.
In 1947, his remains were reburied with those of several members of his goon squad in the cemetery of honour.

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