The fallen resistance people in Limburg

Marinus Spillenaar Bilgen

Oorlogsdoden Nijmegen

The pharmacist’s son Marinus Spillenaar Bilgen, as director of the Gelderland paper mill in Nijmegen, supplied large quantities of paper to underground newspapers such as Trouw [2][5] and collected money for the NSF (Nationaal Steun Fonds, National Support Fund [1], financed the resistance). He was also a member of the Knokploeg (armed group). He studied mechanical engineering in Delft, where the later prominent NSB member Meinoud Rost van Tonningen was his rowing mate. He was arrested on August 7, 1944 in connection with his activities for Trouw and was executed on September 4, 1944 in Herzogenbusch concentration camp. (Article Peter Bak, Trouw newspaper, May 4, 2020 [2])

Vught • Fusilladeplaats • Former execution site • Ancien site d’exécution


Footnotes

1. Nationaal Steun Fonds
2. Peter Bak: Dit zijn de 196 doden van trouw. Zij die stierven voor de krant
3. Oorlogsgravenstichting.nl
4. https://www.oorlogsdodennijmegen.nl/persoon/spillenaar%20bilgen/5dd65193-e52c-448e-a860-07941a58ff5d
5. Wikipedia NL: Trouw (verzetsblad)