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Alfons Hubert Franssen

∗ 11-05-1887 Valkenburg     † 06-03-1976 Valkenburg (88)
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Owner of the Hotel Franssen. The Limburgsch Dagblad of May 8, 1962 [1] wrote that he had something to do with the resistance (but what?). His hotel was confiscated by the German army. After the liberation, the hotel was initially for a month or two emergency hospital for the evacuated population of Kerkrade [2] and then a military hospital for American soldiers. He was a local politician: deputy burgomaster 1927-1931 and 1939-1940, member of the town council 1923-1940. Also chairman of the Harmonie Kur-Kapel Falcobergia [4] 1939-1969, followed by Pierre Schunck.
See Im Memoriam card, archives Rijckheyt. [5]

Footnotes

1. delpher.nl Limburgsch Dagblad, 8-5-1962
2. Dr. Gerhard Kreijen (Kreyen), Kerkrade
3. archieven.nl Korte geschiedenis van het plaatselijk bestuur, Gemeente Valkenburg-Houthem
4. Harmonie Kur-Kapel Falcobergia
5. In Memoriam Alfons Hubert Franssen
6. More in our story Resistance in Valkenburg