HERMAN LEUS.
Herman Leus. Agent of the Bureau of Intelligence (BI), role: wireless operator.
BI alias: GERARD, SIS alias: BRADFIELD.
SIS transmission schedule: St. Jude.
Born on 18 December 1917 in Hengelo, died on 8 March 1945 in Woeste Hoeve.
SIS/BI agent and wireless operator, dropped during the night of 10–11 April 1944 near Buurmalsen–Tricht, Gelderland. According to historian Frans Kluiters, he lost his transmitter during the landing; it must have been that he lost his crystals. After all, Jan Steman used his transmitter with his own crystals. Arrested on 13, or possibly 17, December 1944.
Aliases: Jacob Weerink and Jacob Weernink. Field name: Jan Willem Wiemers.
Harry Holla from Vught brought Herman Leus and Jan Steman into contact with each other.
BI codename: GERARD. Aliases: Jacob Weernink, Jacob Weerink. Field name: Jan Willem Wiemers.
Source: Frans Kluiters.
Herman Leus (Hengelo, 18 December 1917 – Woeste Hoeve, 8 March 1945) was a Dutch resistance fighter during the Second World War. On the night of 10–11 April 1944, he was parachuted into the province of Gelderland, near Tiel, together with the agent Jan Faber. He served as a radio telegraphist/codist for the Bureau of Intelligence (BI). He was arrested on 17 December 1944 and executed by firing squad on 8 March 1945 at the “Woeste Hoeve” in Apeldoorn.
In London, Herman Leus was trained as an agent with the BI, which worked closely with the British Secret Intelligence Service (SIS). After completing his training as a radio telegraphist/codist, he was ready to be parachuted into the occupied Netherlands.
Leus was part of the BI Radio Service transmission group (Zendgroep BI-Radiodienst). His assignment was to maintain radio contact between the Raad van Verzet (RVV, Council of Resistance), the BI, and the Dutch government in London.
In the early morning of 11 April 1944, Herman Leus was parachuted near Rijsbergen together with Jan Faber (1917–2001). He was assigned to the BI Radio Service transmission group.
The first reception address the agents visited after landing was with the “Spartanen” in Princenhage. This reception address was the bicycle and motorcycle shop of the Van Nunen brothers (Henk, Rinus, and Wim). The business was identifiable by a signboard on the front façade advertising the “Sparta” brand. Both the contact person’s alias and the password for entry to the family home were “the Spartanen.” After his landing, he was received there in Princenhage by the agents Josephus Adriaansen and Jacobus Eugène van Loon. Jan Faber made his own radio set available to him, and Sjef Adriaansen and Jacques van Loon provided him with transmitting crystals. With their assistance, Herman Leus established his first signal post in Bergen op Zoom. Andreas Wilhelmus Maria Ausems arranged contact for him with the RVV. During his radio contacts with the BI, he used the code names Gerard, Jacob, and Weerink. In the field, he used the alias Jan Willem Wiemers.
After the liberation of North Brabant, Leus moved his signal post north of the major rivers. He began working in the municipality of Langbroek, north of the city of Utrecht. To maintain radio contact between the RVV and the BI in London, he later relocated his operational area to Ermelo. There, with the help of a forest ranger, he set up a signal post in a bunker near a watchtower.
In mid-December 1944, Herman Leus and his fellow wireless operator Corneille du Corbier fell into German hands. As a result of betrayal by resistance leader Berend Dijkman, the Sicherheitsdienst (SD) had identified his hiding address. Leus attempted to escape but was shot in the leg. He was arrested and interrogated by the SD. On 8 March 1945, Herman Leus was executed by firing squad together with 116 resistance fighters at the Woeste Hoeve inn on the Arnhemseweg near Beekbergen (municipality of Apeldoorn), in a wave of reprisals following the attack on Hanns Albin Rauter that had taken place there. The executions were a reprisal for an attack carried out by the underground two days earlier, during which the Höhere SS- und Polizeiführer Hanns Albin Rauter was seriously wounded.
Source: Wikipedia.
BI alias: GERARD, SIS alias: BRADFIELD.
SIS transmission schedule: St. Jude.
Born on 18 December 1917 in Hengelo, died on 8 March 1945 in Woeste Hoeve.
SIS/BI agent and wireless operator, dropped during the night of 10–11 April 1944 near Buurmalsen–Tricht, Gelderland. According to historian Frans Kluiters, he lost his transmitter during the landing; it must have been that he lost his crystals. After all, Jan Steman used his transmitter with his own crystals. Arrested on 13, or possibly 17, December 1944.
Aliases: Jacob Weerink and Jacob Weernink. Field name: Jan Willem Wiemers.
Harry Holla from Vught brought Herman Leus and Jan Steman into contact with each other.
BI codename: GERARD. Aliases: Jacob Weernink, Jacob Weerink. Field name: Jan Willem Wiemers.
Source: Frans Kluiters.
Herman Leus (Hengelo, 18 December 1917 – Woeste Hoeve, 8 March 1945) was a Dutch resistance fighter during the Second World War. On the night of 10–11 April 1944, he was parachuted into the province of Gelderland, near Tiel, together with the agent Jan Faber. He served as a radio telegraphist/codist for the Bureau of Intelligence (BI). He was arrested on 17 December 1944 and executed by firing squad on 8 March 1945 at the “Woeste Hoeve” in Apeldoorn.
In London, Herman Leus was trained as an agent with the BI, which worked closely with the British Secret Intelligence Service (SIS). After completing his training as a radio telegraphist/codist, he was ready to be parachuted into the occupied Netherlands.
Leus was part of the BI Radio Service transmission group (Zendgroep BI-Radiodienst). His assignment was to maintain radio contact between the Raad van Verzet (RVV, Council of Resistance), the BI, and the Dutch government in London.
In the early morning of 11 April 1944, Herman Leus was parachuted near Rijsbergen together with Jan Faber (1917–2001). He was assigned to the BI Radio Service transmission group.
The first reception address the agents visited after landing was with the “Spartanen” in Princenhage. This reception address was the bicycle and motorcycle shop of the Van Nunen brothers (Henk, Rinus, and Wim). The business was identifiable by a signboard on the front façade advertising the “Sparta” brand. Both the contact person’s alias and the password for entry to the family home were “the Spartanen.” After his landing, he was received there in Princenhage by the agents Josephus Adriaansen and Jacobus Eugène van Loon. Jan Faber made his own radio set available to him, and Sjef Adriaansen and Jacques van Loon provided him with transmitting crystals. With their assistance, Herman Leus established his first signal post in Bergen op Zoom. Andreas Wilhelmus Maria Ausems arranged contact for him with the RVV. During his radio contacts with the BI, he used the code names Gerard, Jacob, and Weerink. In the field, he used the alias Jan Willem Wiemers.
After the liberation of North Brabant, Leus moved his signal post north of the major rivers. He began working in the municipality of Langbroek, north of the city of Utrecht. To maintain radio contact between the RVV and the BI in London, he later relocated his operational area to Ermelo. There, with the help of a forest ranger, he set up a signal post in a bunker near a watchtower.
In mid-December 1944, Herman Leus and his fellow wireless operator Corneille du Corbier fell into German hands. As a result of betrayal by resistance leader Berend Dijkman, the Sicherheitsdienst (SD) had identified his hiding address. Leus attempted to escape but was shot in the leg. He was arrested and interrogated by the SD. On 8 March 1945, Herman Leus was executed by firing squad together with 116 resistance fighters at the Woeste Hoeve inn on the Arnhemseweg near Beekbergen (municipality of Apeldoorn), in a wave of reprisals following the attack on Hanns Albin Rauter that had taken place there. The executions were a reprisal for an attack carried out by the underground two days earlier, during which the Höhere SS- und Polizeiführer Hanns Albin Rauter was seriously wounded.
Source: Wikipedia.
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