Staff Quarter General Student Dinxperlo

At the end of September 1944, quartermaster Oberst Slovatsky came to Dinxperlo by order of the I.Fallschirm Armee Oberkommando. His assignment was to requisition houses for General Student. The map room came in the house of 'the little Mau'; here lived the Jewish family Maurits Prins. The house 'de Kwikkel' (Hallen family) was to be the headquarters. On Hogestraat came the Casino (now Pizza restaurant on Prins Clausplein). From 3 October 1944 until about 28 March 1945, many high-ranking German officers remained active in and around Dinxperlo, including Alfred Schlemm, Langheauser, Plocher, Dr Neumann, Dr Schuchmann, Major Albert Stecken, Major Rudolf Witzig, Batteriechef Willi Menz, Hermann Geschwendt, von der Heydte, Student, Rundstedt, Knaust and so on.

This white villa at 11 Kwikkelstraat was requisitioned on 12 October 1944 to be used as headquarters for General Kurt Student's general staff. The area around the villa was Sperrgebiet and, in addition to this villa, several houses in Dinxperlo were requisitioned to quarter soldiers in.The villa was camouflaged with red-brown paint and covered with pines. Despite the camouflage, the villa was bombed however without very significant damage.

The white villa on Kwikkelstraat had been built in 1938 by the director of the Metaalgaas weaving mill in Dinxperlo.

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