The fallen resistance people in Limburg

Albertus Eugenius Leonardus Schols (Ab)

Maastrichtse Gevelstenen

Ab Schols was department head at the rijksverkeersinspectie (National Traffic Inspectorate) and deputy secretary of the director. During the occupation he was an collaborator of L.O. leaders like Father Bleys and Uncle Leo Moonen in Roermond. [1]
On October 6, 1944, he cycled with Pierre Gruijters to a farmer in Posterholt to collect food for the people in hiding, the so called divers. On their way, two SS men stopped the duo. In autumn 1944 the front was here. The two resisters refused to hand over their bicycles. The SS men found illegal magazines in Schols’ bicycle bags.
The two men were brought to a Gestapo station in Effeld, Germany, just across the border near Herkenbosch, for interrogation. After the interrogation, the chief Wilhelm Lammertz from Eschweiler gave the order to shoot Schols and Gruijters. That happened in the forest near Effeld. [2][3]
On June 23, 1945 Schols was buried in the family grave in the cemetery on Tongerseweg in Maastricht. [3]
Memorial in the school yard of the former Henric van Veldeke College in Maastricht [4.1]
Stolperstein (Stumbling Stone) Boschstraat 60 Maastricht. [4.2]
This person is listed in the “Erelijst 1940-1945” (Honor Roll of the Dutch Parliament). [5]

Footnotes

1. struikelsteentjes-maastricht.nl, Biogr. Ab Schols (pdf)
2. Dr. F. Cammaert, Het Verborgen Front – Geschiedenis van de georganiseerde illegaliteit in de provincie Limburg tijdens de Tweede Wereldoorlog. Doctorale scriptie 1994, Groningen
   6. De Landelijke Organisatie voor hulp aan onderduikers, p.632
3. struikelsteentjes-maastricht.nl, namenlijst Schols, Ab
4. 1. Monument op het schoolplein, ex Henric van Veldeke College, Maastricht
   2. Struikelsteentje (Stolperstein), Boschstraat 60, Maastricht
5. Erelijst 1940-1945
6. Oorlogsgravenstichting.nl
7. https://www.maastrichtsegevelstenen.nl/0.OORLOG/oorlog2c-verzet.htm