Anton Mussert
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Anton Mussert in 1945
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"Leider van het Nederlandse Volk" (Leader of the NSB) |
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In office 13 December 1942 – 7 May 1945 Serving with Reichskommissar Artur Seyss-Inquart |
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| Member of the House of Representatives of the Netherlands | |
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In office May 1937 – December 1942 |
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Anton Adriaan Mussert 11 May 1894 Werkendam, Netherlands |
| Died | 7 May 1946 (aged 51) The Hague, Netherlands |
| Nationality | Dutch |
| Political party | National Socialist Movement (NSB) |
| Spouse(s) | Maria Witlam |
| Alma mater | Delft University of Technology (M.Eng) |
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Politician Civil engineer |
Anton Adriaan Mussert (Dutch pronunciation: [ˈɑntɔn ˈmɵsərt]; 11 May 1894 – 7 May 1946) was one of the founders of the National Socialist Movement in the Netherlands (NSB) and its formal leader. As such, he was the most prominent Dutch fascist before and during World War II. During the war, he was able to keep this position, due to the support he received from the Germans. After the war, he was convicted and executed for high treason.
Mussert was born in 1894 in Werkendam, in the northern part of the province of North Brabant in the Netherlands. From an early age he showed talent in technical matters and on leaving school chose to study civil engineering at the Delft University of Technology. In the 1920s, he became active in several far right organisations, such as the Dietsche Bond which advocated a Greater Netherlands including Flanders (Dutch-speaking Belgium).
On 14 December 1931, he, Cornelis van Geelkerken, and ten others founded the Nationaal-Socialistische Beweging (NSB) (literally, the National Socialist Movement), a Dutch counterpart to the German National Socialists, the Nazis. In its early years, the NSB boasted that its membership included several hundred Jews, until the German party directed a more anti-Semitic course.
A 1933 demonstration at Utrecht attracted only 600 protestors. A year later, the NSB rallied 25,000 demonstrators in Amsterdam. The NSB received 300,000 votes in the 1935 parliamentary elections. In the 1937 voting, it polled a little more than half as much. Thereafter, Mussert worked toward preventing resistance to a German invasion.
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