Mol, Hubertus Antonius Marie

Date of birth:: May 6th, 1914 (Roosendaal, The Netherlands)
Date of death:: April 13th, 1943 (Hattingen, Ennepe-Ruhr Kreis, Noordrijn-Westfalen (Dld.))
Buried on:: Dutch Field of Honour Loenen
Plot: B. Grave: 325.
Nationality:: Dutch

Biography

Lived in Roosendaal. Son of coppersmith/plumber Henricus Jacobus Johannes Mol (29 March 1876 Roosendaal - 14 June 1948 Roosendaal) and Maria Elisabeth Roovers (29 March 1879 Roosendaal - 3 February 1967 Roosendaal). Unmarried. Roman Catholic. Chaplain. Member of the resistance. When he was thirteen, he attended the Institute St. Louis in Oudenbosch. From the age of fourteen, he was enrolled at the minor seminary Ypelaar in Breda, followed by training as a deacon at the major seminary Bovendonk in Hoeven. In May 1940, he was ordained a priest. At the end of November that year, he was appointed chaplain of the Quirinus parish in Halsteren. He devoted himself to Catholic youth during the war. For instance, he led the Catholic youth movement Jonge Wacht, which was disbanded by the Germans in 1942, and started a mouth harmonica club that was not affiliated to the Kultuurkamer. He also owned a radio, with which he listened to Radio Oranje. After being betrayed by an NSB member, his arrest followed on 7 October 1942 in Halsteren. In The Hague, he was convicted of listening to Radio Oranje, continuing banned youth clubs and helping people in hiding. From the Bochum penal prison, where he had been deported to, he was put to work in Hattingen in the Henrichtshütte, a blast furnace for smelting iron ore. On 13 April 1943, chaplain Hubert Mol was liquidated with a shot in the neck. The family was informed that he had died of lung disease. It was not until 1990 that it was revealed what had actually happened. His name is on the Provincial Memorial ‘De Brabantse Soldaat’ in Waalre and the memorial stone bricked into the façade of St Martin's church in Halsteren.

Initially, Mol was buried in Hattingen. His remains were reburied twice, first in 1951 in Roosendaal and thirty years later on the War Graves Foundation National Field of Honour in Loenen, box B, grave number 325.

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Sources

Photo 1: Oorlogsgravenstichting
Photo 2: Marie-Claire Oosterbaan-Lockefeer
Site Brabantse Gesneuvelden; Oorlogsgravenstichting; Erelijst van Gevallenen 1940-1945; site wiewaswie.nl (waaronder overlijdensakte 7/1948 gemeente Halseren); site tracesofwar.nl; site 4en5mei.nl.