Date of birth:

October 12th, 1922 (Bergeijk/North Brabant, Netherlands)

Date of death:

January 7th, 1945 (Limmen/North Holland, Netherlands)

Buried on:

Dutch Honorary Cemetery Bloemendaal
Plot: 34. 

Nationality:

Dutch

Lived in Haarlem, Rechthuisstraat 24. Son of chemist Carl Hijner (16 January 1896 The Hague) and Wilhelmina Hendrika Salm (15 June 1896 The Hague). Unmarried. Chemistry student at the University of Amsterdam. Dutch Reformed. Member of the resistance under the pseudonyms Bart Hansen and Wagemakers.
In 1943 he refused to sign the declaration of loyalty. He provided addresses for hiding persecuted Jewish fellow countrymen, made self-designed stamps, illegal documents and forged identity cards. As a member of the Resistance Council he organised gangs in Brabant and other places and took part in several robberies. He was also involved in printing the illegal newspapers Trouw and Vrij Nederland and a fake version of the Nazi propaganda newspaper De Gil. He also initiated the one-off publication of the illegal Haarlemsche Courant on 6 June 1944 with a print run of 20,000 copies. In 1944 he was arrested for a short time, but was released by mistake. He became commander of the Binnenlandse Strijdkrachten (Internal Armed Forces) in Haarlem and in that capacity he transported weapons and engaged in espionage. He was arrested in Amsterdam on 19 December 1944. He was shot while attempting to escape and was transferred, wounded, to the detention centre on Weteringschans in Amsterdam. On 7 January 1945, he was shot dead in Limmen with nine other Todeskandidaten. This was in retaliation for the fatal attack that had taken place the day before on a German soldier.

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• Photo 1: Eerebegraafplaats Bloemendaal
• Photo 2: Arjo Eijgelsheim
• Heere en Vernooij; Oorlogsgravenstichting; site wiewaswie (overlijdensakten B74/1945 Haarlem en 9/1945 gemeente Limmen); Digitale Stamboom Den Haag. - Eerebegraafplaats Bloemendaal
  

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