Walraven van Hall

Walraven van Hall ( born February 10, 1906 in Amsterdam, † February 12, 1945 in Haarlem ) was a Dutch banker who financed the Dutch resistance during the German occupation of the Netherlands.

As a pseudonym he used the name Van Tuyl.

Life

He was born as the third child of ten children of Adriaan Floris van Hall, a banker, and Petronella Johanna Boissevain. Many members of the family were known in the Netherlands as entrepreneurs and bankers.

After his school days he attended the Maritiim Institute Willem Barents on Terschelling and left it in 1925 as helmsman apprentice. As such, he worked for the Royal Holland Lloyd NV. After he had obtained his diploma as a second mate, he was released to his great disappointment because of his visual impairment in 1929 honorably from the service.

In New York City, his brother Gijs ( bert ) van Hall lived ( Mayor of Amsterdam 1957-1967 ), who worked as a banker. Walraven van Hall moved in 1929 to New York and got through the help of his brother's work in a bank on Wall Street. After a year he returned to the Netherlands and headed a branch of the Bank Oyens H. & Zn, where his father was director. In March 1940 he became a partner in the banking and securities act Mi in Zaandam Veltrup. He married Tilly the Tex. The marriage produced three children.

In August 1940 he became president of the Dutch Union ( Nederlandsche Unie ) Department in Zaandam. This party had set itself the goal to unite the population of the Netherlands. It was banned in late 1941 by the German occupying forces. Van Hall responded with concern the anti-Jewish actions of the occupiers.

Van Hall and his brother went into the ground. They helped to raise money for striking workers and families of seafarers. This van Hall kept contact with the Dutch government in exile and made ​​sure that the lender had the security to get back their loans by the end of the occupation by the Dutch government. Van Hall was unable to open record the names of the lenders. So he divided the lenders of a worthless shares and listed code names of the recipients and the number of shares. This created an underground bank, the destitute families and Jews in hiding in addition to money and food cards and badges gave to.

With the approval of the Dutch government in exile van Hall was by the Dutch Bank ( De Nederlandsche Bank) will receive 50 million guilders, by falsifying notes and let them exchange in banks into real bills. Walraven van Hall became head of the National Support Fund. He supported many resistance groups and underground newspapers like Trouw, Het Parool Vrij Nederland and. Walraven van Hall became known as Olieman (oil man), because he was able to attenuate the differences between groups.

Every Friday met the head of the resistance groups, but on January 2, 1945, the place of meeting of the occupying power was betrayed. The leaders of the resistance groups were arrested. Walraven van Hall was shot in Haarlem.

Aftermath

Walraven van Hall was posthumously honored in 1978 by the Holocaust museum Yad Vashem as Righteous Among the Nations. Compared to the Nederlandsche Bank in the Fredrik Plein in Amsterdam a monument to Walraven van Hall was erected in 2011.

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