Hermanus Jozeph (Jo) Blaauwgeers (Coevorden, June 22, 1918 - Dungeon at Overveen, June 6, 1944) was a Dutch resistance warrior during the Second World War.
Jo Blaauwgeers ('Gert') worked in 1940 at the Royal Marechaussee in Dinxperlo. After the capitulation, he was once again deployed as a marshmallow after a short imprisonment. At the end of 1942 Harreveld (municipality of Lichtenvoorde) became his place of residence and from 1943 he became involved in the National Organization for Assistance to Submersors. Blaauwgeers provided divers of diving addresses, food, clothing, credit cards and fake personal certificates and warned of planned raids.
In the autumn of 1943 he became a contact person of the KP-Aalten. Several times he dressed in his marechaussee uniform as a guide to KP attacks at distribution offices. He also put allied aviators in safety. Then his colleague marechaussee C.C. Poulie flew a shot and commanded American pilot, Blaauwgeers provided for further transportation. Both docked below. As a result of the betrayal of the provocator Willy Markus, the KP-Aalten was rolled up on April 20, 1944, and Blaauwgeers was arrested. The next day he was transferred to Camp Vught. After being sentenced to death on June 2, 1944, he was fired on June 6, 1944.
His second child, Herma-Jozé Blaauwgeers, was born more than six months later. Jo Blaauwgeers received posthumously the Mobilization War Cross (1950) and the Resistance Commemorative Cross (1980). Literature
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