Cornelis van Geelkerken (March 19, 1901-March 29, 1979) was co-founder of the Dutch Nationaal-Socialistische Beweging.

Cornelis van Geelkerken was born in Sint-Jans-Molenbeek, Belgium. In the 1920s he gravitated toward extreme nationalism. Proposing an authoritarian, anti-democratic movement to Anton Mussert they formed the Nationaal-Socialistische Beweging. He became director of their youth corps, the Nationale Jeugdstorm. After the German invasion Geelkerken was appointed Inspector-General of the Nederlandsche Landwacht (home guard set up to combat the Resistance). After the war he was sentenced to life imprisonment but released in 1959. He died on March 29, 1979 in Ede.

See also

• Netherlands in World War II.

Works

• Voor Volk en Vaderland, Utrecht, 1943

References

• Nazi Rule and Dutch Collaboration: The Netherlands under German Occupation, 1940-45 by Gerhard Hirschfeld ISBN 0854961461
• Dutch Under German Occupation: 1940-1945 by Werner Warmbrunn ISBN 0804701520
• The Patriotic Traitors: A history of collaboration in German-occupied Europe, 1940-45 by David Littlejohn ISBN 043442725X
• Biographical Dictionary of the Extreme Right Since 1890 edited by Philip Rees, 1991, ISBN 0130893013