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Anton Adriaan Mussert was a male civil engineer, engineer, non-fiction writer, and politician from the Kingdom of the Netherlands. Born in Werkendam in 1894, he was educated at Delft University of Technology and served as a corporal in the artillery branch during World War I. He was a member of the National Socialist Movement in the Netherlands and the Liberal State Party, and his native language was Dutch.
Mussert authored several works, including *Neerlands toekomst*, *De toekomst van Nederland*, *De nationaal-socialistische beweging in Nederland en de cultuur*, *Nagelaten bekentenissen*, and *Het proces Mussert*. These texts are held in the collections of the NIOD Institute for War, Holocaust and Genocide Studies and the Dutch Resistance Museum. He was convicted of a war crime and executed by capital punishment via gunshot wound at Waalsdorpervlakte in The Hague on 7 May 1946.
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Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1894
- Died
- 1946
- Works
- 6
Top works
- Neerlands toekomst
- De toekomst van Nederland
- De nationaal-socialistische beweging in Nederland en de cultuur
- Nagelaten bekentenissen
- Het proces Mussert
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Key facts
- Preceded by
- Office created
- Succeeded by
- Office abolished
- Born
- Anton Adriaan Mussert , ( 1894-05-11 ) 11 May 1894, Werkendam , Netherlands
- Died
- 7 May 1946 (1946-05-07) (aged 51), Waalsdorpervlakte , The Hague , Netherlands
- Cause of death
- Execution by firing squad
- Party
- National Socialist Movement (from 1931)
- Other political affiliations
- Liberal State Party (1920s)
- Spouse
- Maria Witlam
- Parents
- Joannes Leonardus Mussert (father) Frederika Witlam (mother, sister in law)
- Alma mater
- Delft University of Technology ( MEng )
- Occupation
- Politician civil engineer
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Anton
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Kingdom of the Netherlands
- Place of birth
- Werkendam
- Place of death
- Waalsdorpervlakte
- Occupation
- writer
- Educated at
- Delft University of Technology
- Political party
- Liberal State Party
- Languages spoken
- Dutch
- Native language
- Dutch
- Religion
- Reformed Christianity
- Conflict
- World War I
- Military branch
- artillery branch
- Military rank
- Corporal
- Image
- Anton Mussert (1945).jpg
- Convicted of
- war crime
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- date of birth
- 1894-05-11
- date of death
- 1946-05-07
- Commons category
- Anton Mussert
- cause of death
- gunshot wound
- name in native language
- Anton Adriaan Mussert
- manner of death
- capital punishment
- has works in the collection
- Dutch Resistance Museum
- described at URL
- hdl.handle.net/21.12123/506
- archives at
- Dutch Resistance Museum
- candidacy in election
- 1937 Dutch general election
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Encyclopedic overview
Anton Adriaan Mussert ( Dutch pronunciation: [ˈɑntɔ ˈmʏsərt]; 11 May 1894 – 7 May 1946) was a Dutch politician who co-founded the National Socialist Movement in the Netherlands (NSB) in 1931 and served as its leader until the party was banned in 1945. As such, he was the most prominent Dutch leader of the movement before and during World War II. Mussert collaborated with the German occupation government, but was granted little actual power and held the nominal title of Leider van het Nederlandsche Volk ("Leader of the Dutch People") from 1942 onwards. In May 1945, as the war came to an end in Europe, Mussert was captured and arrested by Allied forces. He was charged and convicted of treason, and was executed in 1946.
Early life
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