Jan Gies

Jan Gies ( born October 18, 1905 in Amsterdam, † January 26, 1993 ibid ) was a member of the Dutch resistance and helped, along with his wife Miep Gies to hide the family of Anne Frank.

Jan Gies Miep Gies met his future wife in 1933 when they both worked for the same company. They married in 1941, threatened as Miep's deportation to Austria. She had refused to join a Nazi women's group, after her passport was invalidated. His marriage to Jan Gies she received the Dutch nationality.

In the same year Gies was nominal director of the company Pectacon and Opekta for which his wife worked since 1936. After the forced by the Nazi laws resignation of Otto Frank Pectacon was continued under the name Gies & Co.. Opekta remained. After the war, passed all three companies in Prinsengracht 263 Gies gave hiders ration cards and hiding places. Among other things, he also helped Otto Frank and his family to hide in the back house of the Dutch branch of the Opekta.

In 1972, the couple Gies was honored as Righteous Among the Nations.