Herman Joseph Frederik Brinkman <i>(Herman)</i>
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Herman Joseph Frederik Brinkman (Herman)


 04-04-1874 Gulpen-Wittem      04-03-1945 Köln (70)
- Underground Press - Roermond - Aid to People in Hiding L.O. -

    The 70-year-old Herman Joseph Frederik Brinkman was a notary in Roermond. He was the widower of Sophie Marie Caroline Laurence de Ras († 13 November 1906) and remarried Francisca Brinkman-Rohling on 9 January 1908. They were the parents of Sophie Marie Amélie Jacqueline Brinkman (b. 18 October 1908), who married Frenchman Paul Marie de Puniet de Parry in 1936. [1]

    As a notary, Brinkman was already advocating for many who had fallen on hard times. And during the war years, he and his daughter helped distribute the illegal magazine De POSTDUIF. This magazine was edited by the engeneer Schlösser and D. Steenmeijer. The latter received the opportunity to do so from Bob Bouman, who, like Steenmeijer, worked for the CCD (Crisis Control Service). The notary H.J.F. Brinkman and his daughter Mrs. S.M.A.J. de Puniet de Parry distributed the sheet, which was intended to provide news to people in shelter or hiding during the final phase of the war. The 70-year-old delivered most of the copies to the air-raid shelters where almost the entire population of Roermond lived during that time. On January 12, 1945, Brinkman, his wife and daughter were arrested. All three died in a Cologne prison in March 1945. [1][2]
    The latter is not correct; her mother was still able to be taken to a hospital in Maastricht, where she died of typhus. [3]

    In Cammaert’s book we read about this family tragedy:
    From September 1944 to January 12, 1945, a typewriter-produced newspaper, called "De Postduif," was published in Roermond with news about the Allied advance, taken over from the B.B.C. and Radio Oranje. The producers wanted to inform the population of Roermond, living in cellars, as much as possible about the latest developments on the fronts. "De Postduif" appeared daily in a circulation of about sixty copies. The producers and distributors included 70-year-old notary H.J.F. Brinkman, his daughter S.M.A.J. de Puniet de Parry-Brinkman, A. Raupp, the engeneer Schlösser and D. Steenmeyer, a person in hiding from The Hague . The Van Leeuwen couple typed the magazine in the apartment of the resister M.A.M. Bouman, who was executed in early May 1943.
    On January 12, 1945, German soldiers found a copy of "De Postduif" in the apartment of the Brinkman family. The aged notary, his wife and their daughter Sophie were arrested and imprisoned in the Cologne prison, where they wers treated very badly. Herman Brinkman died there on March 5, 1945, his daughter five days later.
     [3]
    Herman and Sophie died in Cologne’s Klingelpütz prison. [4]
    The city and the jail were liberated on March 6, 1945, [5] only one day after Herman’s dead. His wife died on March 27, 1945, in one of the repatriation hospitals in Maastricht of typhus, which she had brought with her from jail. [3]
    It is not unlikely that Sophie and her father, in their weakened condition, also fell victim to this disease. Typhus was rampant in Cologne and many other places in Germany about the end of the war. [7]
    We do not know where in Cologne Sophie and her father were buried.
    Unlike her mother, they are not listed on the Roermond War Memorial nor in the database of the Oorlogsgravenstichting (War Graves Foundation).

    Foto + biogr., 1938 : Persoonlijkheden in het Koninkrijk der Nederlanden in woord en beeld

    Footnotes

    1. geni.com Winkel/De Vries, De Ondergrondse Pers p. 214. Publ. NIOD
    2. Dossier oorlogsgravenstichting Francisca Alberta Maria Brinkman-Rohling # 12
    3. Dr. Fred Cammaert, Het Verborgen Front - Geschiedenis van de georganiseerde illegaliteit in de provincie Limburg tijdens de Tweede Wereldoorlog Hoofdstuk XI p. 1093, III.18. De Postduif
    4. oorlogsbronnen.nl Sophie Marie Amelie Jacqueline Puniet de Parry-Brinkman
    5. WDR 6. März 1945 - Die US-Armee nimmt Köln ein
    6. http://www.maastrichtsegevelstenen.nl/0.OORLOG/oorlog2c-verzet.htm