Tjapko van Bergen

Van Bergen and Dusseldorp capsize in the 1928 Olympics

Tjapko Antoon van Bergen (March 26, 1903 in Heiligerlee, Groningen - February 2, 1944 in Krakolye, Leningrad, Russia) was a Dutch rower. He competed at the 1928 Summer Olympics in the Men's Coxed Pairs with Cornelis Dusseldorp; their boat capsized in the first round and they did not finish.[1]

Van Bergen became a member of the National Socialist Movement in the Netherlands (NSB), the fascist and later national-socialist organization that collaborated with the German occupier during World War II. He joined the SS and attained the rank of Rottenführer; he died "for Führer, leader, folk, and fatherland" near Narva, in Estonia, on the Eastern Front.[2][3]

References

  1. ↑ "Tjapko van Bergen". Sports-reference.com. Retrieved 17 August 2014.
  2. ↑ "Death notice". Nieuwsblad van het Noorden. 6 May 1944. p. 4. Retrieved 19 August 2014.
  3. ↑ "Death notice". Het nationale dagblad. 8 May 1944. p. 4. Retrieved 19 August 2014.