Teller, Walter

Date of birth:: April 2nd, 1910 (Soerabaja (Java), Dutch East Indies)
Date of death:: April 21st, 1944 (Concentration camp Natzweiler-Struthof ,Natzweiler, France)
Nationality:: Dutch

Biography

Heating technician, reserve first lieutenant of the infantry and residing in The Hague. Telegraphic messages were sent from his address at Fahrenheitsstraat in The Hague. He was in contact with captain van den Berg and helped secret agent reserve first lieutenant Hubertus "Huub" Mattheus Gerardus Lauwers.

He was arrested on March 6, 1942, because the resistance group had been discovered and a number of members, including van den Berg and Lauwers, were followed by, among others, Sonderfuhrer Huntemann (Abwehr III).

Major Giskes. the chief of the German counter-espionage service in the Netherlands had had all available gauge installations and gauge wagons brought to The Hague to locate the transmitter. A sounding car was discovered on the Laan van Meerdervoort on 6 March an hour before broadcasting time, but the alarmed and fleeing Lauwers, in the presence of Teller and his wife, was recognized by Abwehr III agent Willy. Because of this they were both arrested by Major Giskes.

Held in the Oranje Hotel in Scheveningen for approximately 6 months (cell number 435).
In April 1943, Walter was convicted in the 2nd O.D. process at Haaren (North Brabant).
In October 1943 he was transported to Concentration Camp Natzweiler-Struthof .
On April 21, 1944 he past away here of the consequences of pneumonia.

Walter Teller is listed in the Doodenboek "Oranje Hotel" 1940-1945 (page 70).
Walter Teller is listed in the Erelijst van Gevallenen 1940-1945 (page 715)