Date of birth:

November 17th, 1900 (Antwerpen, Belgium)

Date of death:

October 9th, 1943 (Utrecht (Fort Rhijnauwen), the Netherlands)

Nationality:

Belgian

Lived in Val-Dieu. Unmarried. Commercial agent/monk/priest. Roman Catholic. Member of the resistance under the aliases Charles and especially Father Hugo. Jacobs was fiercely anti-German, which he always made clear in word and writing as a clergyman. In particular, Jacobs was involved in helping allied pilots and prisoners of war. Initially, he studied commercial sciences and was developing himself in the commercial world. Suddenly, the idea arose of wanting to become a priest. He completed his novitiate with the Norbertines and his higher studies with the Cistercians in Val-Dieu. There he was ordained a priest on 21 October 1932 with Hugo as his monastic name. During the war, Father Hugo was also a contributor to a trilingual illegal newspaper under the Dutch name Het Vrije Woord. In French, the name was Le Tribune Libre and in German Das Freie Wort. Clergymen ensured the distribution of the 150 copies. Jacobs was arrested on 19 March 1943 in his home town of Val Dieu and transferred to the Netherlands for trial. After his death sentence, he was executed in Utrecht with several others. After the cremation, the ash urns of the executed were transferred to Erfurt, Germany. They were found there at the end of August 1947. In the summer of 1948, the urns ended up in Maastricht and were placed in the building of the Dutch Red Cross on Cortenstraat. This was then set up as a chapelle ardente. On 26 June 1948, his ash urn was transferred to Eijsden, Belgium.
His ashes were later transferred to the church of the Val Dieu Abbey.

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