The fallen resistance people in Limburg

Frans Verbruggen
(Franciscus Wilhelmus Gerardus Hendricus)

Cammaert writes in his introduction about Frans Verbruggen: Roermond, administrator sanatorium “Hornerheide”. Was affiliated with the O.D. and made himself especially deserving as an aid worker for allied refugees. In this he had a coordinating and leading function. [1.1]
For this, Frans Verbruggen and Remco Roosjen (son of Johan Roosjen) could rely on the organization for aid to people in hiding, L.O., and a number of transit houses in Roermond. [1.2]

Verbruggen had started in Horn on July 1, 1940, as executive secretary at the Hornerheide Sanatorium, climbed successively to administrator and to economic director special in financial, economic and administrative work and to director of Maaslandkliniek.
At the end of the war he was forced into hiding as an active resistance fighter. The high honors, which he received after the war, made one realize something of his courageous resistance activities at that time. After the war he served as a reserve officer in Indonesia for two years. Then he helped bring both the expansion and reorganization of the sanatorium to a successful conclusion. [2.1]
Cause: In 1957, one hundred beds were empty. The sanatorium was expanded to include an internal hospital ward, a nursing home for the long-term sick and a pulmonary ward for sufferers of lung diseases other than TB. The new departments operated under the common name Maaslandkliniek. [2.2]

Footnotes

1. Cammaert, A. P. M. (1994). Het verborgen front: Geschiedenis van de georganiseerde illegaliteit in de provincie Limburg tijdens de Tweede Wereldoorlog, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen.
   1. Hoofdst. 0, pp.18ff: Introductie van vaak genoemde personen
   2. Hoofdst. 4: Hulpverlening aan geallieerde piloten en hun bemanningsleden, p.299
2. 1. ResearchGate Vijftig jaar Hornerheide
   2. archieven.nl EAN_0869: Stichting Hornerheide Sanatorium en Maaslandkliniek te Horn, 1919-1983